Frogs and toads near home: spawn, croaking choruses, toad crossings and the fire-bellied toad, sentence 1

A week or so later, long strings of eggs wound round the weeds in deeper water show that toads have come too.

Who acts: long strings, toads · What happens: wind, show, come · To what, where: long strings, deeper water · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Frogs and toads near home: spawn, croaking choruses, toad crossings and the fire-bellied toad» 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 (long strings, toads), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 week	det
2	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 show	obl:unmarked
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	2 week	cc
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 later	advmod
5	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 week	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 week	punct
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 strings	amod
8	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 show	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 eggs	case
10	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 strings	nmod
11	wound	wind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 strings	acl
12	round	round	ADP	_	14 weeds	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 weeds	det
14	weeds	weed	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 wound	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 water	case
16	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 water	amod
17	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wound	obl
18	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 come	mark
20	toads	toad	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 come	nsubj
21	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 come	aux
22	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 show	ccomp
23	too	too	ADV	_	22 come	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 show	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wind	participle		long strings of eggs not said here	deeper water		round the weeds	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme round weed=Source in water=Trajectory
2	show	present	long strings of eggs			week		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come	present · perfect	toads					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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, 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:309-frogs-and-toads-near-home-spawn-croaking-choruses-toad-crossings-and-the-fire-bellied-toad.lesson:1.

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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