--- title: Visit a garden pond in early spring and you may find a clump of frog… — Life cycles and metamorphosis: frog, butterfly,… · tree and pragmatics description: Visit a garden pond in early spring and you may find a clump of frogspawn with hundreds of black dots; by summer some of them are froglets the size of your fingernail climbing out onto the grass. Who acts: you, some, froglets. 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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, some, froglets), 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:1 # text = Visit a garden pond in early spring and you may find a clump of frogspawn with hundreds of black dots; by summer some of them are froglets the size of your fingernail climbing out onto the grass. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1 1 Visit visit VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 pond pond NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 early early ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 clump clump NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 frogspawn frogspawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 dots dot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 by by ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 24 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 28 nsubj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nmod _ _ 27 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 froglets froglet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 appos _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 fingernail fingernail NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 34 climbing climb VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 acl _ _ 35 out out PART RP _ 34 compound:prt _ _ 36 onto onto ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=suggest | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **visit** | imperative | you *not said here* | a garden pond | | | spring | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pond=Co-Agent | | 2 | **find** | may | you | a clump of frogspawn | | | summer | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clump=Topic | | 3 | **is a** | present | some | froglets | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **climb out** | gerund | froglets *not said here* | | | the grass | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto grass=Trajectory | 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:048-life-cycles-metamorphosis.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): R3-conj-first ×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: [Life cycles and metamorphosis: frog, b…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/48-life-cycles-metamorphosis/0/) - next →: [Life cycles and metamorphosis: frog, b…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/48-life-cycles-metamorphosis/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/48-life-cycles-metamorphosis/)