--- title: Axolotls are salamanders that keep their feathery gills and live in… — The amphibian room: poison frogs, axolotls and t… · tree and pragmatics description: Axolotls are salamanders that keep their feathery gills and live in water all their lives; they come from lakes near Mexico City and are almost gone in the wild, though millions live in labs and homes. Who acts: Axolotls, salamanders, frogs, millions. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Axolotls, salamanders, frogs, millions), 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:9 # text = Axolotls are salamanders that keep their feathery gills and live in water all their lives; they come from lakes near Mexico City and are almost gone in the wild, though millions live in labs and homes. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Axolotls axolotl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 salamanders salamander NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 feathery feathery ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 gills gill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 13 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 15 det:predet _ _ 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 lives life NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl:unmarked _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 19 from from ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 lakes lake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 21 near near ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 Mexico Mexico PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 City City PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:aux:pass 26 almost almost ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 gone gone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 wild wild NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 though though SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 33 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 34 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 labs lab NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 homes home NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 conj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Axolotls | salamanders | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **keep** | present | salamanders | frogs's feathery gills | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gill=Theme | | 3 | **live** | present | salamanders *not said here* | frogs's lives | | water | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location | | 4 | **come** | present | frogs *= frog* | | | lakes near Mexico City | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from lake=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **is** | present | salamanders *not said here* | | | the wild | | almost, gone *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **live** | present | millions | | | labs and homes | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lab=Location | 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. **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:9`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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