--- title: Look at a clump of frogspawn in a garden pond in March: each black d… — Frogs, toads, newts and salamanders · tree and pragmatics description: Look at a clump of frogspawn in a garden pond in March: each black dot is an egg in a ball of jelly, and in a few months it becomes a tadpole with gills, then grows back legs, front legs, and soaks its tail back into its body. Who acts: you, black dot, dot. 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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 (you, black dot, dot), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:032-frogs-toads-newts-and-salamanders.lesson:1 # text = Look at a clump of frogspawn in a garden pond in March: each black dot is an egg in a ball of jelly, and in a few months it becomes a tadpole with gills, then grows back legs, front legs, and soaks its tail back into its body. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 032-frogs-toads-newts-and-salamanders.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): R5-strong ×2 1 Look look VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 clump clump NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 frogspawn frogspawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 pond pond NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 March March PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 14 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 16 det _ _ 15 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 dot dot NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 jelly jelly NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 tadpole tadpole NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 xcomp _ _ 35 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 gills gill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nmod _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 39 advmod _ _ 39 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 40 back back ADP RP _ 39 compound:prt _ _ 41 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obj _ _ 42 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 43 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 conj _ _ 45 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 47 soaks soak VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 conj _ _ 48 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 49 nmod:poss _ _ 49 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obj _ _ 50 back back ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=39:advmod 51 into into ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 52 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 53 nmod:poss _ _ 53 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obl _ _ 54 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | at a clump of frogspawn in a garden pond in March and a egg | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at clump=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | each black dot | a egg | | a ball of jelly | | | tree rules | | 3 | **become** | present | dot | a tadpole with gills | | | month | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **grow back** | present | | legs and front legs | | | then | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location leg=Theme | | 5 | **soak** | present | | dot's tail | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent tail=Source | 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:032-frogs-toads-newts-and-salamanders.lesson:1`. **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 ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Frogs, toads, newts and salamanders, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/32-frogs-toads-newts-and-salamanders/0/) - next →: [Frogs, toads, newts and salamanders, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/32-frogs-toads-newts-and-salamanders/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/32-frogs-toads-newts-and-salamanders/)