--- title: A frog starts as an egg in a pond, hatches into a tadpole that swims… — Life cycles · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: frog, tadpole. A sentence of the lesson «Life cycles» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tre --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/25-life-cycles/1/) [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/) / 1 # Life cycles, sentence 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. **Who acts:** frog, tadpole · **What happens:** start, hatch, swim, breathe, grow, lose · **To what, where:** legs, tail, frog, land 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 (frog, tadpole), 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:1 # text = 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. # 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 ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 frog frog NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 as as ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 pond pond NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 hatches hatch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 into into ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 tadpole tadpole NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 swims swim VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 breathes breathe VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 gills gill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 23 advmod _ _ 23 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 24 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 loses lose VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 27 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=26:conj 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 frog frog NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:obj 33 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 34 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 acl:relcl _ _ 36 on on ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 38 . . 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 | **start** | present | a frog | | | | | as a egg in a pond | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **hatch** | present | a frog *not said here* | | | | | into a tadpole | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient into tadpole=Product | | 3 | **swim** | present | a tadpole | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **breathe** | present | a tadpole *not said here* | | | | | with gills | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **grow** | present | a frog *not said here* | legs | | | then | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location leg=Theme | | 6 | **lose** | present | a frog *not said here* | frog's tail | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Eventuality | | 7 | **become** | present | a frog *not said here* | a frog | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **live** | can | a frog | | | land | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on land=Location | 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:1`. **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 ×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, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/25-life-cycles/0/) - next →: [Life cycles, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/25-life-cycles/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/25-life-cycles/)