--- title: A frog changes shape as it grows: frogspawn, tadpole, froglet, frog;… — Life begins: being born and growing up · tree and pragmatics description: A frog changes shape as it grows: frogspawn, tadpole, froglet, frog; it is the same animal all the way through. Who acts: frog. A sentence of the lesson «Life begins: being born and growing up» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/51-life-begins-being-born-and-growing-up/12/) [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/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [Life begins: being born and growing up](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/51-life-begins-being-born-and-growing-up/) / 12 # Life begins: being born and growing up, sentence 12 A frog changes shape as it grows: frogspawn, tadpole, froglet, frog; it is the same animal all the way through. **Who acts:** frog · **What happens:** change, grow, be · **To what, where:** shape, frogspawn, same animal This is a sentence of the lesson «Life begins: being born and growing up» of the religion ethics 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 (frog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:051-life-begins-being-born-and-growing-up.lesson:12 # text = A frog changes shape as it grows: frogspawn, tadpole, froglet, frog; it is the same animal all the way through. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 051-life-begins-being-born-and-growing-up.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 frog frog NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 changes change VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 as as SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 9 frogspawn frogspawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 xcomp _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 tadpole tadpole NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:obj 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 froglet froglet NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 frog frog NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 22 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 24 det:predet _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod:unmarked _ _ 25 through through ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change** | present | a frog | shape | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Patient | | 2 | **grow** | present | frog | frogspawn and tadpole and frog and froglet | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | frog | the same animal | | | | all way *nmod:unmarked* | tree rules | 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:religion-ethics:051-life-begins-being-born-and-growing-up.lesson:12`. **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, 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. 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