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title: Tadpoles hatch after about 1 to 3 weeks, breathe with gills and swim… — Life cycles and metamorphosis: frog, butterfly,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Tadpoles hatch after about 1 to 3 weeks, breathe with gills and swim with a tail, and grow faster in warmer water. Who acts: Tadpoles. A sentence of the lesson «Life cycles and metamorphosis: frog, butterfly, ladybird» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the p
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# Life cycles and metamorphosis: frog, butterfly, ladybird, sentence 5

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Tadpoles hatch after about 1 to 3 weeks, breathe with gills and swim with a tail, and grow faster in warmer water.

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**Who acts:** Tadpoles · **What happens:** hatch, breathe, swim, grow · **To what, where:** warmer water

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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 (Tadpoles), 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:5
# text = Tadpoles hatch after about 1 to 3 weeks, breathe with gills and swim with a tail, and grow faster in warmer water.
# 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, R5-strong ×1
1	Tadpoles	tadpole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hatch	hatch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nmod	_	_
8	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	breathe	breathe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	gills	gill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	swim	swim	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=14:conj
21	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	warmer	warm	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	amod	_	_
24	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **hatch** | present | Tadpoles |  |  |  | week |  | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **breathe** | present | Tadpoles *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with gills | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **swim** | present | Tadpoles *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a tail | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with tail=Theme |
| 4 | **grow** | present | Tadpoles *not said here* |  |  | warmer water |  | fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location |

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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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**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: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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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