Frogs and toads near home: spawn, croaking choruses, toad crossings and the fire-bellied toad, sentence 7

Toadspawn comes in long strings like a necklace with a double row of eggs, wrapped around plants in deeper water; one string can be a few metres long.

Who acts: Toadspawn, one string · What happens: come, wrap, be · To what, where: long strings, plants, few metres

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 (Toadspawn, one string), 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	Toadspawn	Toadspawn	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 comes	nsubj
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 strings	case
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 strings	amod
5	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 comes	obl
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 necklace	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 necklace	det
8	necklace	necklace	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 strings	nmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 row	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 row	det
11	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 row	amod
12	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 necklace	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 eggs	case
14	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 row	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wrapped	punct
16	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 strings	conj
17	around	around	ADP	_	18 plants	case
18	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 wrapped	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 water	case
20	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 water	amod
21	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 plants	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 string	punct
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 string	nummod
24	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 metres	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 metres	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 metres	cop
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 metres	det
28	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 metres	amod
29	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 comes	parataxis
30	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 metres	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 comes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	present	Toadspawn		long strings like a necklace with a double row of eggs		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in string=Location
2	wrap	participle	Toadspawn not said here		plants in deeper water		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme around plant=Destination
3	is a	can	one string	a few metres		long property	tree rules

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:7.

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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