--- title: The Chinese giant salamander is the largest amphibian in the world,… — China's mountains: golden snub-nosed monkeys, ta… · tree and pragmatics description: The Chinese giant salamander is the largest amphibian in the world, reported up to about 1.8 metres long; it lives in cold, fast mountain streams and catches fish, crabs and frogs. Who acts: Chinese giant salamander, largest amphibian, salamander. 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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 (Chinese giant salamander, largest amphibian, salamander), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:378-china-s-mountains-golden-snub-nosed-monkeys-takins-red-crowned-cranes-and-giant-salamanders.lesson:17 # text = The Chinese giant salamander is the largest amphibian in the world, reported up to about 1.8 metres long; it lives in cold, fast mountain streams and catches fish, crabs and frogs. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 378-china-s-mountains-golden-snub-nosed-monkeys-takins-red-crowned-cranes-and-giant-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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 giant giant NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 salamander salamander NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 largest large ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 8 amod _ _ 8 amphibian amphibian NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 14 up up ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 14 fixed _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:case 16 about about ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 1.8 1.8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac 18 nummod _ _ 18 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 19 long long ADJ RB Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 24 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 27 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 streams stream NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=22:cc 30 catches catch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 31 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 crabs crab NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 conj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=31:cc 35 frogs frog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 conj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the Chinese giant salamander | the largest amphibian | | the world | | | tree rules | | 2 | **report up** | participle | the largest amphibian *not said here* | 1.8 metres | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **live** | present | salamander | | | cold fast mountain streams | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in stream=Location | | 4 | **catch** | present | salamander *not said here* | fish and crabs and frogs | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme | 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:378-china-s-mountains-golden-snub-nosed-monkeys-takins-red-crowned-cranes-and-giant-salamanders.lesson:17`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1. **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. 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