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title: A pink axolotl smiles from its tank with feathery gills like a baby… — The amphibian room: poison frogs, axolotls and t… · tree and pragmatics
description: A pink axolotl smiles from its tank with feathery gills like a baby that never grew up, and a sign warns that a fungus is killing frogs all over the world, so zoos keep rescue groups safe like a Noah's Ark. Who acts: pink axolotl, baby, sign, fungus. A sentence of the lesson «The amphibian room: poi
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# The amphibian room: poison frogs, axolotls and the frog rescue, sentence 2

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A pink axolotl smiles from its tank with feathery gills like a baby that never grew up, and a sign warns that a fungus is killing frogs all over the world, so zoos keep rescue groups safe like a Noah's Ark.

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**Who acts:** pink axolotl, baby, sign, fungus, zoos · **What happens:** smile, not grow up, warn, kill, keep · **To what, where:** tank, frogs, world, rescue groups · **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 (pink axolotl, baby, sign, fungus), 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:2
# text = A pink axolotl smiles from its tank with feathery gills like a baby that never grew up, and a sign warns that a fungus is killing frogs all over the world, so zoos keep rescue groups safe like a Noah's Ark.
# 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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	axolotl	axolotl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	smiles	smile	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	tank	tank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	feathery	feathery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	gills	gill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	warns	warn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	fungus	fungus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	killing	kill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:advcl
28	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
29	all	all	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
30	over	over	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	so	so	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
35	zoos	zoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
36	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
37	rescue	rescue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	_
39	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:amod
40	like	like	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	Noah	Noah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nmod:poss	_	_
43	's	's	PART	POS	_	42	case	_	_
44	Ark	Ark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **smile** | present | a pink axolotl |  |  | axolotl's tank |  | with feathery gills like a baby | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **grow up** | past | a baby |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **warn** *speech: warn* | present | a sign |  |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **kill** | present · progressive | a fungus | frogs |  | the world |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Theme |
| 5 | **keep** | present | zoos | rescue groups |  |  |  | like a Noah's Ark; safe *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent group=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 ×4, 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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