--- title: Every living thing goes through a life cycle: it begins, grows, beco… — Life cycles · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: living thing, thing, young. A sentence of the lesson «Life cycles» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dep --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/25-life-cycles/0/) [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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/25-life-cycles/) / 0 # Life cycles, sentence 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. **Who acts:** living thing, thing, young · **What happens:** go, begin, grow, become, make, die · **To what, where:** life cycle, adult, young, cycle This is a sentence of the lesson «Life cycles» of the world 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 (living thing, thing, young), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:025-life-cycles.lesson:0 # text = 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. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 025-life-cycles.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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 3 det _ _ 2 living living NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 through through ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 cycle cycle NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 begins begin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj 16 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:obj 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 20 young young NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 29 dies die VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 while while SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 young young NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 34 start start VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 cycle cycle NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 again again ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | present | every living thing | | | a life cycle | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through cycle=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **begin** | present | thing | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **grow** | present | thing *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **become** | present | thing *not said here* | a adult | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **make** | present | every living thing *not said here* | young of thing's own | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset young=Product | | 6 | **die** | present | every living thing *not said here* | | | | in the end | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in end=Attribute | | 7 | **start** | present | thing's young | the cycle | | | again | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cycle=Eventuality | 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:world:025-life-cycles.lesson:0`. **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, 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: [Groups of animals and how to tell them…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/24-animal-groups/18/) - next →: [Life cycles, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/25-life-cycles/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/25-life-cycles/)