--- title: Out of a thousand eggs only a few become adult frogs, because fish,… — Frogs and toads near home: spawn, croaking choru… · tree and pragmatics description: Out of a thousand eggs only a few become adult frogs, because fish, newts, birds, beetles and dragonfly larvae eat many, which is why frogs lay so many eggs. Who acts: few, fish, frogs. 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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 (few, fish, frogs), 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:8 # text = Out of a thousand eggs only a few become adult frogs, because fish, newts, birds, beetles and dragonfly larvae eat many, which is why frogs lay so many eggs. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Out out ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 6 only only ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 nsubj _ _ 9 become become VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 adult adult ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 frogs frog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 xcomp _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 13 because because SCONJ IN ExtPos=ADP 24 mark _ _ 14 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 newts newt NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 beetles beetle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 dragonfly dragonfly NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 larvae larva NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 24 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 25 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 29 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 24 conj _ _ 30 frogs frog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 31 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl:relcl _ _ 32 so so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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** | present | a few | adult frogs | | a thousand eggs | | | 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 | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **lay** | present | frogs | many eggs | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | 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:8`. **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): 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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