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title: Zoo-bred dart frogs are harmless, because their poison comes from th… — The amphibian room: poison frogs, axolotls and t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Zoo-bred dart frogs are harmless, because their poison comes from the ants and mites they eat in the wild, yet the keeper still wears gloves, this time to protect the frog's thin, damp skin, which it partly breathes through. Who acts: bred dart frogs, poison, frogs, keeper. A sentence of the lesson 
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# The amphibian room: poison frogs, axolotls and the frog rescue, sentence 1

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Zoo-bred dart frogs are harmless, because their poison comes from the ants and mites they eat in the wild, yet the keeper still wears gloves, this time to protect the frog's thin, damp skin, which it partly breathes through.

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**Who acts:** bred dart frogs, poison, frogs, keeper · **What happens:** breed, be, come, eat, wear, protect · **To what, where:** ants, wild, gloves, thin damp skin

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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 (bred dart frogs, poison, frogs, keeper), 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:1
# text = Zoo-bred dart frogs are harmless, because their poison comes from the ants and mites they eat in the wild, yet the keeper still wears gloves, this time to protect the frog's thin, damp skin, which it partly breathes through.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Zoo	zoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
3	bred	breed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
4	dart	dart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	harmless	harmless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	ants	ant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	mites	mite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	wild	wild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	keeper	keeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	still	still	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	wears	wear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
29	gloves	glove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
32	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl:unmarked	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	acl	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod:poss	_	_
37	's	's	PART	POS	_	36	case	_	_
38	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
40	damp	damp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	46	obj	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
45	partly	partly	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	breathes	breathe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	acl:relcl	_	_
47	through	through	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **breed** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | bred dart frogs |  |  |  |  | harmless *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | present | frogs's poison |  |  | the ants and mites |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from ant=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **eat** | present | frogs *= frog* | the ants and mites *not said here* |  | the wild |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ant=Patient |
| 5 | **wear** | present | the keeper | gloves |  |  | still; time |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent glove=Theme |
| 6 | **protect** | to-infinitive | the keeper *not said here* | the frog's thin damp skin |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Beneficiary |
| 7 | **breathe** | present | keeper | the frog's thin damp skin |  |  |  | partly, through *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |

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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): 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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