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title: A female common frog lays about 1,000 to 2,000 eggs in a jelly clump… — Life cycles and metamorphosis: frog, butterfly,… · tree and pragmatics
description: A female common frog lays about 1,000 to 2,000 eggs in a jelly clump, and because most eggs and tadpoles are eaten, often only a handful become adult frogs; toads lay their eggs in long strings instead. Who acts: female common frog, handful, toads. A sentence of the lesson «Life cycles and metamorph
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# Life cycles and metamorphosis: frog, butterfly, ladybird, sentence 4

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A female common frog lays about 1,000 to 2,000 eggs in a jelly clump, and because most eggs and tadpoles are eaten, often only a handful become adult frogs; toads lay their eggs in long strings instead.

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**Who acts:** female common frog, handful, toads · **What happens:** lay about, eat, become, lay · **To what, where:** 1,000 eggs, jelly clump, most eggs, adult frogs, eggs, long strings

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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 (female common frog, handful, toads), 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:4
# text = A female common frog lays about 1,000 to 2,000 eggs in a jelly clump, and because most eggs and tadpoles are eaten, often only a handful become adult frogs; toads lay their eggs in long strings instead.
# 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 ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	female	female	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lays	lay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	1,000	1000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	2,000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nmod	_	_
10	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	jelly	jelly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	clump	clump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
17	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
18	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
19	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	tadpoles	tadpole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	often	often	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:advmod
26	only	only	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	handful	handful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
30	adult	adult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	xcomp	_	_
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
33	toads	toad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
34	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
35	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	strings	string	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
40	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay about** | present | a female common frog | 1,000 eggs |  | a jelly clump |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in clump=Destination |
| 2 | **eat** | present · passive |  | most eggs and tadpoles |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **become** | present | a handful | adult frogs |  |  |  | often *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **lay** | present | toads | toads's eggs |  | long strings |  | instead *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in string=Destination |

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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.

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**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 ×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.

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