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title: In the amphibian room tiny frogs as bright as sweets hop about; in t… — The amphibian room: poison frogs, axolotls and t… · tree and pragmatics
description: In the amphibian room tiny frogs as bright as sweets hop about; in the wild a poison dart frog's colours shout «I taste horrible», and the golden poison frog of Colombia is one of the most poisonous animals on Earth. Who acts: sweets, tiny frogs, golden poison frog. A sentence of the lesson «The amp
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# The amphibian room: poison frogs, axolotls and the frog rescue, sentence 0

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In the amphibian room tiny frogs as bright as sweets hop about; in the wild a poison dart frog's colours shout «I taste horrible», and the golden poison frog of Colombia is one of the most poisonous animals on Earth.

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**Who acts:** sweets, tiny frogs, golden poison frog · **What happens:** hop about, shout, taste, be · **To what, where:** amphibian room, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The amphibian room: poison frogs, axolotls and the frog rescue» 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 (sweets, tiny frogs, golden poison frog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:089-amphibian-room-poison-frogs-axolotls-frog-rescue.lesson:0
# text = In the amphibian room tiny frogs as bright as sweets hop about; in the wild a poison dart frog's colours shout «I taste horrible», and the golden poison frog of Colombia is one of the most poisonous animals on Earth.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 089-amphibian-room-poison-frogs-axolotls-frog-rescue.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	amphibian	amphibian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
7	as	as	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
8	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	hop	hop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
12	about	about	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	wild	wild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	poison	poison	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	dart	dart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj
23	shout	shout	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	taste	taste	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	ccomp	_	_
27	horrible	horrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
28	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Colombia	Colombia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
38	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	conj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
41	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	42	advmod	_	_
42	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	_
44	on	on	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	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 | **hop about** | present | sweets |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | tiny frogs |  |  | the amphibian room |  | in the wild | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **taste** *in a quote* | present | tiny frogs *= frog* |  |  |  |  | horrible *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is a** | present | the golden poison frog of Colombia | one |  |  |  | of the poisonous animals on Earth | tree rules |

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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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**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:089-amphibian-room-poison-frogs-axolotls-frog-rescue.lesson:0`.

**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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-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/).

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