--- title: Many animals change shape completely as they grow up: a tadpole beco… — Life cycles and metamorphosis: frog, butterfly,… · tree and pragmatics description: Many animals change shape completely as they grow up: a tadpole becomes a frog, a caterpillar becomes a butterfly, and this big change of body is called metamorphosis. Who acts: Many animals, animals, tadpole, caterpillar. 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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 (Many animals, animals, tadpole, caterpillar), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:048-life-cycles-metamorphosis.lesson:0 # text = Many animals change shape completely as they grow up: a tadpole becomes a frog, a caterpillar becomes a butterfly, and this big change of body is called metamorphosis. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 048-life-cycles-metamorphosis.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 completely completely ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 6 as as SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 9 up up ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 tadpole tadpole NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 frog frog NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:obj 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 caterpillar caterpillar NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 butterfly butterfly NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:obj 22 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 24 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 26 det _ _ 25 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 change change NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 31 metamorphosis metamorphosis NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 xcomp _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change** | present | Many animals | shape | | | | completely *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Patient | | 2 | **grow up** | present | animals *= animal* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **become** | present | a tadpole | a frog | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **become** | present | a caterpillar | a butterfly | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **call** | present · passive | | this big change of body | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 6 | **change** | | body | | | | | | nom change «event intransitive»: of=agent | 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. 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