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title: The olm lives in dark caves in Slovenia and nearby; it has no colour… — The amphibian room: poison frogs, axolotls and t… · tree and pragmatics
description: The olm lives in dark caves in Slovenia and nearby; it has no colour, and its eyes are hidden under skin, because in total darkness eyes were no use and faded over many generations; it can live about 100 years. Who acts: olm, total darkness eyes. A sentence of the lesson «The amphibian room: poison 
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# The amphibian room: poison frogs, axolotls and the frog rescue, sentence 11

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The olm lives in dark caves in Slovenia and nearby; it has no colour, and its eyes are hidden under skin, because in total darkness eyes were no use and faded over many generations; it can live about 100 years.

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**Who acts:** olm, total darkness eyes · **What happens:** live, have, hide, be, fade · **To what, where:** dark caves, colour, eyes, skin, use, many generations

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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 (olm, total darkness eyes), 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:11
# text = The olm lives in dark caves in Slovenia and nearby; it has no colour, and its eyes are hidden under skin, because in total darkness eyes were no use and faded over many generations; it can live about 100 years.
# 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 ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det
2	olm	olm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	caves	cave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Slovenia	Slovenia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	nearby	nearby	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
22	under	under	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
25	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:obl
30	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	32	det	_	_
32	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	advcl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	faded	fade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
35	over	over	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	generations	generation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
38	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
42	about	about	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=44:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
43	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	44	nummod	_	_
44	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **live** | present | the olm |  |  | dark caves in Slovenia |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cave=Location |
| 2 | **have** | present | olm | no colour |  |  |  | nearby *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient |
| 3 | **hide** | present · passive |  | olm's eyes |  | skin |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient under skin=Location |
| 4 | **is a** | past | total darkness eyes | no use |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fade** | past | total darkness eyes *not said here* |  |  |  | over many generations |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **live** | can | olm |  |  |  | year |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-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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