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title: In March a garden pond can fill with clumps of jelly dotted with bla… — Frogs and toads near home: spawn, croaking choru… · tree and pragmatics
description: In March a garden pond can fill with clumps of jelly dotted with black eggs: common frog spawn. Who acts: garden pond. A sentence of the lesson «Frogs and toads near home: spawn, croaking choruses, toad crossings and the fire-bellied toad» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depe
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# Frogs and toads near home: spawn, croaking choruses, toad crossings and the fire-bellied toad, sentence 0

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In March a garden pond can fill with clumps of jelly dotted with black eggs: common frog spawn.

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**Who acts:** garden pond · **What happens:** fill, dot · **To what, where:** jelly

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Frogs and toads near home: spawn, croaking choruses, toad crossings and the fire-bellied toad» 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 (garden pond), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:309-frogs-and-toads-near-home-spawn-croaking-choruses-toad-crossings-and-the-fire-bellied-toad.lesson:0
# text = In March a garden pond can fill with clumps of jelly dotted with black eggs: common frog spawn.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 309-frogs-and-toads-near-home-spawn-croaking-choruses-toad-crossings-and-the-fire-bellied-toad.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	clumps	clump	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	jelly	jelly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	dotted	dot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	spawn	spawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill** | can | a garden pond |  |  |  | march | with clumps of jelly | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with clump=Instrument |
| 2 | **dot** | participle |  | jelly *not said here* |  |  |  | with black eggs | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with egg=Theme |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:309-frogs-and-toads-near-home-spawn-croaking-choruses-toad-crossings-and-the-fire-bellied-toad.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): no change. **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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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