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title: The Chinese giant salamander is the largest amphibian in the world,… — The amphibian room: poison frogs, axolotls and t… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Chinese giant salamander is the largest amphibian in the world, up to about 1.8 metres long, and is critically endangered from hunting and changed rivers. Who acts: Chinese giant salamander. A sentence of the lesson «The amphibian room: poison frogs, axolotls and the frog rescue» of the biology 
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# The amphibian room: poison frogs, axolotls and the frog rescue, sentence 12

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The Chinese giant salamander is the largest amphibian in the world, up to about 1.8 metres long, and is critically endangered from hunting and changed rivers.

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**Who acts:** Chinese giant salamander · **What happens:** be, endanger, change · **To what, where:** largest amphibian, world, hunting, rivers

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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 (Chinese giant salamander), 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:12
# text = The Chinese giant salamander is the largest amphibian in the world, up to about 1.8 metres long, and is critically endangered from hunting and changed rivers.
# 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 ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	salamander	salamander	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	amphibian	amphibian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	up	up	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:case
15	about	about	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	1.8	1.8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
22	critically	critically	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	endangered	endanger	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	conj	_	_
28	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Chinese giant salamander | the largest amphibian |  | the world |  | 1.8 metres *obl:unmarked* | tree rules |
| 2 | **endanger** | present · passive | the Chinese giant salamander *not said here* |  |  | hunting |  | critically *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **change** | participle | the Chinese giant salamander *not said here* | rivers |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=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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**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:12`.

**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 ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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