Life cycles and metamorphosis: frog, butterfly, ladybird, sentence 1

Visit a garden pond in early spring and you may find a clump of frogspawn with hundreds of black dots; by summer some of them are froglets the size of your fingernail climbing out onto the grass.

Who acts: you, some, froglets · What happens: visit, find, be, climb out · To what, where: garden pond, clump, froglets, grass

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 (you, some, froglets), 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	Visit	visit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pond	det
3	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pond	compound
4	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Visit	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 spring	case
6	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 spring	amod
7	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Visit	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 find	cc
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 find	nsubj
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 find	aux
11	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Visit	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 clump	det
13	clump	clump	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 find	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 frogspawn	case
15	frogspawn	frogspawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 clump	nmod
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 hundreds	case
17	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 frogspawn	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 dots	case
19	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 dots	amod
20	dots	dot	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 hundreds	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 summer	punct
22	by	by	ADP	_	23 summer	case
23	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 find	obl:unmarked
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	28 froglets	nsubj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 some	nmod
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 froglets	cop
28	froglets	froglet	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Visit	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 size	det
30	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 froglets	appos
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 fingernail	case
32	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 fingernail	nmod:poss
33	fingernail	fingernail	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 size	nmod
34	climbing	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 froglets	acl
35	out	out	PART	_	34 climbing	compound:prt
36	onto	onto	ADP	_	38 grass	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 grass	det
38	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 climbing	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Visit	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: suggest
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=suggest

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	visit	imperative	you not said here	a garden pond		spring	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pond=Co-Agent
2	find	may	you	a clump of frogspawn		summer	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clump=Topic
3	is a	present	some	froglets			tree rules
4	climb out	gerund	froglets not said here		the grass		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto grass=Trajectory

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: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): R3-conj-first ×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.

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