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title: Metamorphosis is a big change in body shape during an animal's life;… — Life cycles · tree and pragmatics
description: Metamorphosis is a big change in body shape during an animal's life; frogs, butterflies, beetles and bees all go through it. Who acts: Metamorphosis, frogs. A sentence of the lesson «Life cycles» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Life cycles, sentence 11

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Metamorphosis is a big change in body shape during an animal's life; frogs, butterflies, beetles and bees all go through it.

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**Who acts:** Metamorphosis, frogs · **What happens:** be, go · **To what, where:** big change, body shape

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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 (Metamorphosis, frogs), 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:11
# text = Metamorphosis is a big change in body shape during an animal's life; frogs, butterflies, beetles and bees all go through it.
# 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): R5-strong ×2
1	Metamorphosis	metamorphosis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	during	during	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
15	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	beetles	beetle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	advmod	_	_
23	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
24	through	through	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Metamorphosis | a big change and beetles and bees |  | body shape during a animal's life |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | present | frogs and butterflies |  |  |  |  | through butterfly | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through it=Initial\_Location |

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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.

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**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:11`.

**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 ×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/).

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