Life begins: being born and growing up, sentence 12
A frog changes shape as it grows: frogspawn, tadpole, froglet, frog; it is the same animal all the way through.
Who acts: frog · What happens: change, grow, be · To what, where: shape, frogspawn, same animal
This is a sentence of the lesson «Life begins: being born and growing up» of the religion ethics 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 (frog), 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 | 2 frog | det |
| 2 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 changes | nsubj |
| 3 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 changes | obj |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 grows | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 grows | nsubj |
| 7 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 changes | advcl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 frogspawn | punct |
| 9 | frogspawn | frogspawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grows | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tadpole | punct |
| 11 | tadpole | tadpole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 frogspawn | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 froglet | punct |
| 13 | froglet | froglet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 frogspawn | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 frog | punct |
| 15 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tadpole | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 animal | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 animal | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 animal | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 animal | det |
| 20 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 animal | amod |
| 21 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 changes | conj |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 way | det:predet |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 way | det |
| 24 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 animal | nmod:unmarked |
| 25 | through | through | ADV | _ | 24 way | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 changes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | present | a frog | shape | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Patient | ||||
| 2 | grow | present | frog | frogspawn and tadpole and frog and froglet | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | frog | the same animal | all way nmod:unmarked | tree rules |
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:religion-ethics:051-life-begins-being-born-and-growing-up.lesson:12.
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, R7-rel-agree ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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