The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn, queen bumblebees and nesting birds, sentence 6

A common frog lays about one to two thousand eggs in one clump, and only a few out of every thousand grow into adult frogs; frogs often come back to the pond where they grew up.

Who acts: common frog, few, frogs, eggs · What happens: lay, grow, come back, grow up · To what, where: thousand eggs, one clump, pond

This is a sentence of the lesson «The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn, queen bumblebees and nesting birds» 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 (common frog, few, frogs, eggs), 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 frog	det
2	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 frog	amod
3	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lays	nsubj
4	lays	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 come	conj
5	about	about	ADP	_	10 eggs	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 thousand	compound
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 two	case
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 one	nmod
9	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 eggs	nummod
10	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lays	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 clump	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 clump	nummod
13	clump	clump	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lays	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 grow	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 grow	cc
16	only	only	ADV	_	18 few	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 few	det
18	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 grow	nsubj
19	out	out	ADP	_	21 every	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 every	case
21	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	22 thousand	det
22	thousand	thousand	ADV	_	23 grow	advmod
23	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lays	conj
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 frogs	case
25	adult	adult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 frogs	amod
26	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 grow	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 frogs	punct
28	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 come	nsubj
29	often	often	ADV	_	30 come	advmod
30	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
31	back	back	ADV	_	30 come	advmod
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 pond	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 pond	det
34	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 come	obl
35	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	37 grew	advmod
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 grew	nsubj
37	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 pond	acl:relcl
38	up	up	ADP	_	37 grew	compound:prt
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lays	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay	present	a common frog	thousand eggs	one clump		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in clump=Destination
2	grow	present	a few			into adult frogs result; thousand property	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into frog=Result
3	come back	present	frogs		the pond	often property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to pond=Initial_Location
4	grow up	past	eggs = egg				vn appear-48.1.1 «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:333-the-garden-in-spring-buds-frogspawn-queen-bumblebees-and-nesting-birds.lesson:6.

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, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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