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description: Glass frogs have see-through bellies, and in 2022 scientists found that a sleeping glass frog hides most of its red blood in its liver to look almost clear. Who acts: Glass frogs, scientists, glass frog. A sentence of the lesson «The amphibian room: poison frogs, axolotls and the frog rescue» of the
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# The amphibian room: poison frogs, axolotls and the frog rescue, sentence 16

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Glass frogs have see-through bellies, and in 2022 scientists found that a sleeping glass frog hides most of its red blood in its liver to look almost clear.

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**Who acts:** Glass frogs, scientists, glass frog · **What happens:** have, find, hide, look · **To what, where:** see bellies, 2022, most, liver · **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 (Glass frogs, scientists, glass 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:16
# text = Glass frogs have see-through bellies, and in 2022 scientists found that a sleeping glass frog hides most of its red blood in its liver to look almost clear.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Glass	glass	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:amod
2	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	see	see	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	4	flat	_	_
7	bellies	belly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	2022	2022	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nummod
12	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	hides	hide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
20	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	liver	liver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:acl
30	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **have** | present | Glass frogs | see bellies |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent belly=Patient |
| 2 | **find** | past | scientists | 2022 |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **hide** | present | a glass frog | most of toad's red blood |  | toad's liver |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent most=Patient in liver=Location |
| 4 | **look** | to-infinitive | a glass frog *not said here* |  |  |  |  | clear *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.

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

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