--- title: Wild axolotls live only in the canals of Lake Xochimilco in Mexico C… — The axolotl, the tardigrade and the mantis shrimp · tree and pragmatics description: Wild axolotls live only in the canals of Lake Xochimilco in Mexico City, are mostly dark brown or olive with speckles, and are critically endangered because of drained, polluted water and introduced fish. Who acts: Wild axolotls. 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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 (Wild axolotls), 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:7 # text = Wild axolotls live only in the canals of Lake Xochimilco in Mexico City, are mostly dark brown or olive with speckles, and are critically endangered because of drained, polluted water and introduced fish. # 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): no change 1 Wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 axolotls axolotl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 only only ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 canals canal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Lake Lake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 Xochimilco Xochimilco PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 flat _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 Mexico Mexico PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 City City PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 16 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 17 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 19 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 olive olive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 conj _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 speckles speckle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 26 critically critically ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 endangered endanger VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 28 because because ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 28 fixed _ _ 30 drained drain VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 amod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 32 polluted pollute VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 amod _ _ 33 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 introduced introduce VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 36 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | Wild axolotls | | | the canals of Lake in Mexico City | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in canal=Location | | 2 | **is** | present | Wild axolotls *not said here* | | | | | brown, mostly *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | Wild axolotls *not said here* | | | | | with speckles | tree rules | | 4 | **endanger** | present · passive | Wild axolotls *not said here* | | | | | because drained polluted water; critically *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **drain** | participle | | | | | | | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source | | 6 | **pollute** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **introduce** | past | Wild axolotls *not said here* | fish | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient | 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. 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