Life cycles and metamorphosis: frog, butterfly, ladybird, sentence 14
Mayflies live a year or more as nymphs under water, but adults live only a few hours to a day or two and have no working mouth: an adult only mates and lays eggs.
Who acts: Mayflies, adults, adult · What happens: live, have, mate, lay · To what, where: working mouth, eggs
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 (Mayflies, adults, adult), 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 | Mayflies | mayfly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 live | nsubj |
| 2 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 year | det |
| 4 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 live | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 more | cc |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 year | conj |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 nymphs | case |
| 8 | nymphs | nymph | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 live | obl |
| 9 | under | under | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 nymphs | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 live | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 live | cc |
| 13 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 live | nsubj |
| 14 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 live | conj |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 hours | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 hours | det |
| 17 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hours | amod |
| 18 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 live | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 day | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 day | det |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 live | obl |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 two | cc |
| 23 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 day | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 have | cc |
| 25 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 live | conj |
| 26 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 28 mouth | det |
| 27 | working | working | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 mouth | compound |
| 28 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 have | obj |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 31 adult | punct |
| 30 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 adult | det |
| 31 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 mouth | appos |
| 32 | only | only | ADV | _ | 33 mates | advmod |
| 33 | mates | mate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 adult | acl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 lays | cc |
| 35 | lays | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 mates | conj |
| 36 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 lays | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 live | 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 | live | present | Mayflies | year | as nymphs under water | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | live | present | adults | day; hour | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | present | adults not said here | no working mouth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient | ||||
| 4 | mate | present | a adult not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | lay | present | a adult not said here | eggs | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result |
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:14.
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): R5-strong ×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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