--- title: Some are record breakers: a wood frog freezes solid in the Alaskan w… — Frogs, toads, newts and salamanders · tree and pragmatics description: Some are record breakers: a wood frog freezes solid in the Alaskan winter and hops away in spring, and a Goliath frog from Cameroon is as big as a cat. Who acts: Some, wood frog, Goliath frog. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Some, wood frog, Goliath frog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:032-frogs-toads-newts-and-salamanders.lesson:3 # text = Some are record breakers: a wood frog freezes solid in the Alaskan winter and hops away in spring, and a Goliath frog from Cameroon is as big as a cat. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 032-frogs-toads-newts-and-salamanders.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 4 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 record record NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 breakers breaker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 frog frog NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:compound 9 freezes freeze VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 10 solid solid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 Alaskan alaskan ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 hops hop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 17 away away ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 Goliath Goliath PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 24 frog frog NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 25 from from ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 Cameroon Cameroon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 28 as as ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ _ 30 as as ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Some | record breakers | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **freeze** | present | a wood frog | | | | winter | solid *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **hop away** | present | a wood frog *not said here* | | | | spring | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | a Goliath frog from Cameroon | | | | | as a cat; big *property* | tree rules | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:032-frogs-toads-newts-and-salamanders.lesson:3`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Frogs, toads, newts and salamanders, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/32-frogs-toads-newts-and-salamanders/2/) - next →: [Frogs, toads, newts and salamanders, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/32-frogs-toads-newts-and-salamanders/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/32-frogs-toads-newts-and-salamanders/)