Life cycles and metamorphosis: frog, butterfly, ladybird, sentence 0
Many animals change shape completely as they grow up: a tadpole becomes a frog, a caterpillar becomes a butterfly, and this big change of body is called metamorphosis.
Who acts: Many animals, animals, tadpole, caterpillar, body · What happens: change, grow up, become, call · To what, where: shape, frog, butterfly, big change · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Life cycles and metamorphosis: frog, butterfly, ladybird» 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 (Many animals, animals, tadpole, caterpillar), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 animals | amod |
| 2 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 change | nsubj |
| 3 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 change | obj |
| 5 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 3 change | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 grow | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 grow | nsubj |
| 8 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 change | advcl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 grow | compound:prt |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 change | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tadpole | det |
| 12 | tadpole | tadpole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 becomes | nsubj |
| 13 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 change | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 frog | det |
| 15 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 becomes | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 becomes | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 caterpillar | det |
| 18 | caterpillar | caterpillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 becomes | nsubj |
| 19 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 becomes | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 butterfly | det |
| 21 | butterfly | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 becomes | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 called | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 called | cc |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 change | det |
| 25 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 change | amod |
| 26 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 called | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 body | case |
| 28 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 change | nmod |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 called | aux:pass |
| 30 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 change | conj |
| 31 | metamorphosis | metamorphosis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 called | xcomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 change | punct |
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 | change | present | Many animals | shape | completely property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Patient | |||
| 2 | grow up | present | animals = animal | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | become | present | a tadpole | a frog | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | become | present | a caterpillar | a butterfly | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | call | present · passive | this big change of body | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 6 | change | body | nom change «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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:048-life-cycles-metamorphosis.lesson:0.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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