--- title: A tadpole grows back legs first, then front legs; its gills are repl… — Life cycles and metamorphosis: frog, butterfly,… · tree and pragmatics description: A tadpole grows back legs first, then front legs; its gills are replaced by lungs, and its tail is not dropped but slowly taken apart and reused by the body. Who acts: tadpole, lungs. 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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 (tadpole, lungs), 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:6 # text = A tadpole grows back legs first, then front legs; its gills are replaced by lungs, and its tail is not dropped but slowly taken apart and reused by the body. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 tadpole tadpole NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 back back ADV RB _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 3 advmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 10 advmod _ _ 9 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 12 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 gills gill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 replaced replace VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 16 by by ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 lungs lung NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 20 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 dropped drop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 conj _ _ 25 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 conj _ _ 28 apart apart ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 reused reuse VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 conj _ _ 31 by by ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 . . 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 | **grow back** | present | a tadpole | legs | | | | front legs *obl*; first *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location leg=Theme | | 2 | **replace** | present · passive | lungs | tadpole's gills | | | | | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | | 3 | **not** **drop** | present · passive | | tadpole's tail | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **take apart** | participle | | | | | | apart, slowly *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **reuse** | participle | | | | | | by the body | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:048-life-cycles-metamorphosis.lesson:6`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×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…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/48-life-cycles-metamorphosis/5/) - next →: [Life cycles and metamorphosis: frog, b…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/48-life-cycles-metamorphosis/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/48-life-cycles-metamorphosis/)