--- title: A common frog lays about 1,000 to 2,000 eggs in one clump of frogspa… — Frogs, toads, newts and salamanders · tree and pragmatics description: A common frog lays about 1,000 to 2,000 eggs in one clump of frogspawn, while toads lay their eggs in long strings round water plants; most eggs and tadpoles are eaten, so only a handful grow up, and adult frogs hunt on land and come back to the pond to breed. 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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 (common frog, toads, handful, adult frogs), 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:5 # text = A common frog lays about 1,000 to 2,000 eggs in one clump of frogspawn, while toads lay their eggs in long strings round water plants; most eggs and tadpoles are eaten, so only a handful grow up, and adult frogs hunt on land and come back to the pond to breed. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×5, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 frog frog NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 lays lay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 about about ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 1,000 1000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 2,000 2000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 nmod _ _ 9 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 clump clump NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 frogspawn frogspawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 while while SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 toads toad NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 19 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 strings string NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nmod 24 round round ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:amod 25 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:conj 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 28 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 29 amod _ _ 29 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 tadpoles tadpole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 conj _ _ 32 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 34 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 35 so so ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 36 only only ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 handful handful NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 40 up up ADP RP _ 39 compound:prt _ _ 41 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 43 adult adult ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 frogs frog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 nsubj _ _ 45 hunt hunt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:parataxis 46 on on ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 49 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=45:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 50 back back ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ _ 51 to to ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 52 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 pond pond NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obl _ _ 54 to to PART TO _ 55 mark _ _ 55 breed breed VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 49 advcl _ _ 56 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lay about** | present | a common frog | 1,000 eggs | | one clump of frogspawn | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in clump=Destination | | 2 | **lay** | present | toads | Frogs's eggs | | long strings round water plants | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in string=Destination | | 3 | **eat** | present · passive | | most eggs and tadpoles | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **grow up** | present | a handful | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **hunt** | present | adult frogs | | | land | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent on land=Location | | 6 | **come back** | present | adult frogs *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **breed** | to-infinitive | adult frogs *not said here* | | | | | | 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:032-frogs-toads-newts-and-salamanders.lesson:5`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×5, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Frogs, toads, newts and salamanders, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/32-frogs-toads-newts-and-salamanders/4/) - next →: [Frogs, toads, newts and salamanders, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/32-frogs-toads-newts-and-salamanders/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/32-frogs-toads-newts-and-salamanders/)