--- title: A thousand eggs may become only a few adult frogs, because fish, new… — Frogs and toads near home: spawn, croaking choru… · tree and pragmatics description: A thousand eggs may become only a few adult frogs, because fish, newts, birds, beetles and dragonfly larvae eat so many. Who acts: thousand eggs, fish. 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 Mo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/309-frogs-and-toads-near-home-spawn-croaking-choruses-toad-crossings-and-the-fire-bellied-toad/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Frogs and toads near home: spawn, croa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/309-frogs-and-toads-near-home-spawn-croaking-choruses-toad-crossings-and-the-fire-bellied-toad/) / 4 # Frogs and toads near home: spawn, croaking choruses, toad crossings and the fire-bellied toad, sentence 4 A thousand eggs may become only a few adult frogs, because fish, newts, birds, beetles and dragonfly larvae eat so many. **Who acts:** thousand eggs, fish · **What happens:** become, eat · **To what, where:** few adult frogs, many 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 (thousand eggs, fish), 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:4 # text = A thousand eggs may become only a few adult frogs, because fish, newts, birds, beetles and dragonfly larvae eat so many. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 only only ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 adult adult ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 10 frogs frog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 xcomp _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 12 because because SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 13 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 newts newt NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 beetles beetle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=13:cc 21 dragonfly dragonfly NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 larvae larva NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 23 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **become** | may | a thousand eggs | a few adult frogs | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **eat** | present | fish and newts and birds and beetles and dragonfly larvae | many | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Patient | 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](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: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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. 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