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title: An axolotl can regrow a whole lost leg with bones, muscles and nerve… — The axolotl, the tardigrade and the mantis shrimp · tree and pragmatics
description: An axolotl can regrow a whole lost leg with bones, muscles and nerves, and parts of its tail, spinal cord, heart and brain, without leaving a scar; doctors study it in the hope of helping people heal better one day. Who acts: axolotl, doctors, hope, people. A sentence of the lesson «The axolotl, the
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# The axolotl, the tardigrade and the mantis shrimp, sentence 5

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An axolotl can regrow a whole lost leg with bones, muscles and nerves, and parts of its tail, spinal cord, heart and brain, without leaving a scar; doctors study it in the hope of helping people heal better one day.

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**Who acts:** axolotl, doctors, hope, people · **What happens:** regrow, lose, leave, study, help, heal · **To what, where:** whole lost leg, scar, axolotl, hope, people

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The axolotl, the tardigrade and the mantis shrimp» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (axolotl, doctors, hope, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:044-axolotl-tardigrade-mantis-shrimp.lesson:5
# text = An axolotl can regrow a whole lost leg with bones, muscles and nerves, and parts of its tail, spinal cord, heart and brain, without leaving a scar; doctors study it in the hope of helping people heal better one day.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 044-axolotl-tardigrade-mantis-shrimp.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	axolotl	axolotl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	regrow	regrow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
8	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	nerves	nerve	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc
17	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	spinal	spinal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	cord	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
29	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
30	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	scar	scar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
34	doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
35	study	study	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
40	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
41	helping	help	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	39	acl	_	_
42	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obj	_	_
43	heal	heal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	xcomp	_	_
44	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	43	advmod	_	_
45	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	46	nummod	_	_
46	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl:unmarked	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **regrow** | can | a axolotl | a whole lost leg and parts of axolotl's tail |  |  |  | with bones and muscles and nerves | tree rules |
| 2 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **leave** | gerund | a axolotl *not said here* | a scar |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scar=Theme |
| 4 | **study** | present | doctors | axolotl |  | the hope |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 5 | **help** | gerund | the hope *not said here* | people |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 6 | **heal** | infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  |  | day | well *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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.

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**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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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