--- title: Life cycles — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Life cycles», a lesson of the world course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Every living thing goes through a life cycle: it begins, grows, becomes an adult, makes young of its own, and in the end dies, while its young start the cycle a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/25-life-cycles/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / Life cycles # Life cycles Lesson 25 of the world course of Mova's primary school: 17 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/25-life-cycles/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/25-life-cycles/0/) — Every living thing goes through a life cycle: it begins, grows, becomes an adult, makes young of its own, and in the end dies, while its young start the cycle again. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/25-life-cycles/1/) — A frog starts as an egg in a pond, hatches into a tadpole that swims and breathes with gills, then grows legs, loses its tail and becomes a frog that can live on land. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/25-life-cycles/2/) — A butterfly has four very different stages: egg, caterpillar (larva), chrysalis (pupa) and adult; this big change is called metamorphosis. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/25-life-cycles/3/) — A chicken hatches from an egg as a fluffy chick that already looks like a small hen, and simply grows; a bean plant grows from a seed into a plant that flowers and makes new beans. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/25-life-cycles/4/) — A caterpillar eats and eats, growing many times bigger, then inside the chrysalis its body is rebuilt into a butterfly with wings. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/25-life-cycles/5/) — A life cycle is the series of changes a living thing goes through from birth to adult and new young. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/25-life-cycles/6/) — A frog's life cycle is egg, tadpole, froglet and adult frog. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/25-life-cycles/7/) — Frogs lay their eggs in clumps of clear jelly with a black dot in each egg; this is called frogspawn. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/25-life-cycles/8/) — Tadpoles live in water and breathe with gills. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/25-life-cycles/9/) — Adult frogs breathe with lungs and through their skin. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/25-life-cycles/10/) — A butterfly's life cycle is egg, caterpillar, chrysalis and adult butterfly. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/25-life-cycles/11/) — Metamorphosis is a big change in body shape during an animal's life; frogs, butterflies, beetles and bees all go through it. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/25-life-cycles/12/) — A caterpillar does most of the eating and growing in a butterfly's life. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/25-life-cycles/13/) — A chicken's life cycle is egg, chick and adult hen or rooster. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/25-life-cycles/14/) — A hen's egg must be kept warm for about three weeks before the chick hatches. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/25-life-cycles/15/) — A bean plant's life cycle is seed, seedling, adult plant with flowers, and pods with new seeds. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/25-life-cycles/17/) — Most seeds do not need light to germinate, because they use their own food store at first. - ← previous: [Groups of animals and how to tell them apart](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/24-animal-groups/) - next →: [Food chains and food webs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/26-food-chains-and-webs/) - ↑ back to [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/)