Masters of camouflage, sentence 13

The owl butterfly has big eye spots like an owl's eyes that may scare off birds, and many butterflies have eye spots to confuse predators.

Who acts: owl butterfly, eyes, many butterflies · What happens: have, scare off, confuse · To what, where: big eye spots, birds, eye spots, predators

This is a sentence of the lesson «Masters of camouflage» of the biology 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 (owl butterfly, eyes, many butterflies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 butterfly	det
2	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 butterfly	compound
3	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 spots	amod
6	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spots	compound
7	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 has	obj
8	like	like	ADP	_	12 eyes	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 owl	det
10	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 eyes	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 owl	case
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 spots	nmod
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 scare	nsubj
14	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 scare	aux
15	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 eyes	acl:relcl
16	off	off	ADP	_	15 scare	compound:prt
17	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 scare	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 have	cc
20	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 butterflies	amod
21	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 have	nsubj
22	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 has	conj
23	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 spots	compound
24	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 have	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 confuse	mark
26	confuse	confuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 have	advcl
27	predators	predator	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 confuse	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	the owl butterfly	big eye spots	like a owl's eyes	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Patient
2	scare off	may	a owl's eyes	birds		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bird=Experiencer
3	have	present	many butterflies	eye spots		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Patient
4	confuse	to-infinitive	many butterflies not said here	predators		vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent predator=Patient

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, 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:biology:189-masters-of-camouflage.lesson:13.

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, R8-pos-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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