--- title: Mayflies live a year or more as nymphs under water, but adults live… — Life cycles and metamorphosis: frog, butterfly,… · tree and pragmatics description: Mayflies live a year or more as nymphs under water, but adults live only a few hours to a day or two and have no working mouth: an adult only mates and lays eggs. Who acts: Mayflies, adults, adult. A sentence of the lesson «Life cycles and metamorphosis: frog, butterfly, ladybird» of the biology cou --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/48-life-cycles-metamorphosis/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Life cycles and metamorphosis: frog, b…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/48-life-cycles-metamorphosis/) / 14 # Life cycles and metamorphosis: frog, butterfly, ladybird, sentence 14 Mayflies live a year or more as nymphs under water, but adults live only a few hours to a day or two and have no working mouth: an adult only mates and lays eggs. **Who acts:** Mayflies, adults, adult · **What happens:** live, have, mate, lay · **To what, where:** working mouth, eggs This is a sentence of the lesson «Life cycles and metamorphosis: frog, butterfly, ladybird» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mayflies, adults, adult), 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:14 # text = Mayflies live a year or more as nymphs under water, but adults live only a few hours to a day or two and have no working mouth: an adult only mates and lays eggs. # 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): R5-strong ×2 1 Mayflies mayfly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl:unmarked _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 conj _ _ 7 as as ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 nymphs nymph NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl 9 under under ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 15 only only ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 conj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 26 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 28 det _ _ 27 working working NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 29 : : PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 30 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 appos _ _ 32 only only ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 mates mate VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 lays lay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 36 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **live** | present | Mayflies | | | | year | as nymphs under water | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **live** | present | adults | | | | day; hour | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **have** | present | adults *not said here* | no working mouth | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient | | 4 | **mate** | present | a adult *not said here* | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **lay** | present | a adult *not said here* | 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:048-life-cycles-metamorphosis.lesson:14`. **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: [Life cycles and metamorphosis: frog, b…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/48-life-cycles-metamorphosis/13/) - next →: [Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/49-babies/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/48-life-cycles-metamorphosis/)