--- title: About 12 to 16 weeks after the eggs were laid, tiny froglets leave t… — Life cycles and metamorphosis: frog, butterfly,… · tree and pragmatics description: About 12 to 16 weeks after the eggs were laid, tiny froglets leave the water; they take two or three years to become adult frogs and can also breathe through their damp skin. Who acts: tiny froglets, eggs. 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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 (tiny froglets, eggs), 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:7 # text = About 12 to 16 weeks after the eggs were laid, tiny froglets leave the water; they take two or three years to become adult frogs and can also breathe through their damp skin. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 16 16 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nmod _ _ 5 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obl:unmarked 6 after after SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 laid lay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 advcl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 froglets froglet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 leave leave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj 20 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=20:cc 22 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 conj _ _ 23 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ _ 26 adult adult ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 frogs frog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:obj 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=25:cc 29 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 also also ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 breathe breathe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:conj 32 through through ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 34 damp damp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lay** | past · passive | | the eggs | | | week | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | | 2 | **leave** | present | tiny froglets | the water | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | | 3 | **take** | present | eggs *= egg* | | | | year | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **become** | to-infinitive | eggs *= egg* *not said here* | adult frogs | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **breathe** | can | eggs *= egg* *not said here* | | | eggs's damp skin | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: 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:7`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×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…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/48-life-cycles-metamorphosis/6/) - next →: [Life cycles and metamorphosis: frog, b…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/48-life-cycles-metamorphosis/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/48-life-cycles-metamorphosis/)