Frogs and toads near home: spawn, croaking choruses, toad crossings and the fire-bellied toad, sentence 4

A thousand eggs may become only a few adult frogs, because fish, newts, birds, beetles and dragonfly larvae eat so many.

Who acts: thousand eggs, fish · What happens: become, eat · To what, where: few adult frogs, many

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 (thousand eggs, fish), 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	3 eggs	det
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 eggs	nummod
3	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 become	nsubj
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 become	aux
5	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	only	only	ADV	_	10 frogs	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 frogs	det
8	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 frogs	amod
9	adult	adult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 frogs	amod
10	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 become	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 become	punct
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	23 eat	mark
13	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 eat	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 newts	punct
15	newts	newt	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 fish	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 birds	punct
17	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 fish	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 beetles	punct
19	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 fish	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 larvae	cc
21	dragonfly	dragonfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 larvae	compound
22	larvae	larva	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 fish	conj
23	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 become	advcl
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 many	advmod
25	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 eat	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 become	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	may	a thousand eggs	a few adult frogs					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	eat	present	fish and newts and birds and beetles and dragonfly larvae	many					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Patient

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:4.

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 ×1, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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