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title: In the fairy tale a kiss turns a frog into a prince, but in real lif… — The amphibian room: poison frogs, axolotls and t… · tree and pragmatics
description: In the fairy tale a kiss turns a frog into a prince, but in real life kissing a frog or toad turns nothing into anything and some skins hurt your mouth, and no, holding a toad does not give you warts. Who acts: kiss, kissing, skins, holding. A sentence of the lesson «The amphibian room: poison frogs
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# The amphibian room: poison frogs, axolotls and the frog rescue, sentence 3

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In the fairy tale a kiss turns a frog into a prince, but in real life kissing a frog or toad turns nothing into anything and some skins hurt your mouth, and no, holding a toad does not give you warts.

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**Who acts:** kiss, kissing, skins, holding · **What happens:** turn, kiss, hurt, hold, not give · **To what, where:** frog, nothing, mouth, toad, warts, you

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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 (kiss, kissing, skins, holding), 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:3
# text = In the fairy tale a kiss turns a frog into a prince, but in real life kissing a frog or toad turns nothing into anything and some skins hurt your mouth, and no, holding a toad does not give you warts.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	kiss	kiss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
18	kissing	kiss	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:advcl
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=20:cc
22	toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
24	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	23	obj	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	23	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=23:cc
28	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
29	skins	skin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
30	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
31	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=23:cc
35	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	42	discourse	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
37	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	42	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=42:nsubj
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
41	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	42	advmod	_	_
42	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
43	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	42	iobj	_	_
44	warts	wart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obj	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **turn** | present | a kiss | a frog |  |  |  | into a prince; in the fairy tale | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent frog=Patient in tale=Topic into prince=Recipient |
| 2 | **kiss** | gerund |  | a frog or toad |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **turn** | present | kissing | nothing |  |  |  | into anything; in real life | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient in life=Topic into anything=Recipient |
| 4 | **hurt** | past | some skins | your mouth |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mouth=Patient |
| 5 | **hold** | gerund |  | a toad |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toad=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **give** | present · do-support | holding | warts | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient wart=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): R1-cc-next ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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