--- title: Toadspawn comes in long strings like a necklace with a double row of… — Frogs and toads near home: spawn, croaking choru… · tree and pragmatics description: Toadspawn comes in long strings like a necklace with a double row of eggs, wrapped around plants in deeper water; one string can be a few metres long. Who acts: Toadspawn, one string. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Toadspawn, one string), 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:7 # text = Toadspawn comes in long strings like a necklace with a double row of eggs, wrapped around plants in deeper water; one string can be a few metres long. # 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 Toadspawn Toadspawn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 strings string NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 like like ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 necklace necklace NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 double double ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 row row NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 wrapped wrap VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 17 around around ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 deeper deep ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 21 amod _ _ 21 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 string string NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 25 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 26 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 29 cop _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 parataxis _ _ 30 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 29 advmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | Toadspawn | | | long strings like a necklace with a double row of eggs | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in string=Location | | 2 | **wrap** | participle | Toadspawn *not said here* | | | plants in deeper water | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme around plant=Destination | | 3 | **is a** | can | one string | a few metres | | | | long *property* | 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](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:7`. **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. 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