Life cycles and metamorphosis: frog, butterfly, ladybird, sentence 4

A female common frog lays about 1,000 to 2,000 eggs in a jelly clump, and because most eggs and tadpoles are eaten, often only a handful become adult frogs; toads lay their eggs in long strings instead.

Who acts: female common frog, handful, toads · What happens: lay about, eat, become, lay · To what, where: 1,000 eggs, jelly clump, most eggs, adult frogs, eggs, long strings

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 (female common frog, handful, toads), 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	4 frog	det
2	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 frog	amod
3	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 frog	amod
4	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lays	nsubj
5	lays	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	about	about	ADV	_	7 1,000	advmod
7	1,000	1000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 eggs	nummod
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 2,000	case
9	2,000	2000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 1,000	nmod
10	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lays	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 clump	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 clump	det
13	jelly	jelly	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 clump	compound
14	clump	clump	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lays	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 become	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 become	cc
17	because	because	SCONJ	_	23 eaten	mark
18	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 eggs	amod
19	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 eaten	nsubj:pass
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 tadpoles	cc
21	tadpoles	tadpole	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 eggs	conj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 eaten	aux:pass
23	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 become	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 eaten	punct
25	often	often	ADV	_	29 become	advmod
26	only	only	ADV	_	28 handful	advmod
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 handful	det
28	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 become	nsubj
29	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lays	conj
30	adult	adult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 frogs	amod
31	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 become	xcomp
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 lay	punct
33	toads	toad	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 lay	nsubj
34	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lays	conj
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 eggs	nmod:poss
36	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 lay	obj
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 strings	case
38	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 strings	amod
39	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 lay	obl
40	instead	instead	ADV	_	34 lay	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lays	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay about	present	a female common frog	1,000 eggs	a jelly clump		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in clump=Destination
2	eat	present · passive		most eggs and tadpoles			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	become	present	a handful	adult frogs		often property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	lay	present	toads	toads's eggs	long strings	instead property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in string=Destination

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:4.

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 ×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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