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description: Frogs breathe and take in water partly through their thin, moist skin, so tanks are kept damp, and gloves protect their skin from the oils and soap on our hands. Who acts: Frogs, gloves. A sentence of the lesson «The amphibian room: poison frogs, axolotls and the frog rescue» of the biology course o
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# The amphibian room: poison frogs, axolotls and the frog rescue, sentence 6

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Frogs breathe and take in water partly through their thin, moist skin, so tanks are kept damp, and gloves protect their skin from the oils and soap on our hands.

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**Who acts:** Frogs, gloves · **What happens:** breathe, take in, keep, protect · **To what, where:** water, tanks, skin

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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 (Frogs, gloves), 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:6
# text = Frogs breathe and take in water partly through their thin, moist skin, so tanks are kept damp, and gloves protect their skin from the oils and soap on our hands.
# 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): no change
1	Frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	breathe	breathe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	in	in	PART	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	partly	partly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
10	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	moist	moist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	tanks	tank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
19	damp	damp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	gloves	glove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	protect	protect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	oils	oil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **breathe** | present | Frogs |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take in** | present | Frogs *not said here* | water |  |  |  | partly *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
| 3 | **keep** | present · passive |  | tanks |  |  |  | damp *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **protect** | present | gloves | frogs's skin |  |  |  | from the oils on our hands and soap | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent skin=Beneficiary from oil=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): no change. **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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