Butterflies, moths and ladybirds, sentence 10
Only the caterpillars of a few kinds of moth eat wool clothes; most moths never touch clothes at all.
Who acts: caterpillars, most moths · What happens: eat, not touch · To what, where: wool clothes, clothes, all
This is a sentence of the lesson «Butterflies, moths and ladybirds» 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 (caterpillars, most moths), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 caterpillars | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 caterpillars | det |
| 3 | caterpillars | caterpillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 eat | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 kinds | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 kinds | det |
| 6 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 kinds | amod |
| 7 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 caterpillars | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 moth | case |
| 9 | moth | moth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kinds | nmod |
| 10 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | wool | wool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 clothes | compound |
| 12 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 10 eat | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 touch | punct |
| 14 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 moths | amod |
| 15 | moths | moth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 touch | nsubj |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 touch | advmod |
| 17 | touch | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 eat | parataxis |
| 18 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 17 touch | obj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 all | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 clothes | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | the caterpillars of a few kinds of moth | wool clothes | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not touch | present | most moths | clothes | all | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme clothes=Co-Theme |
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:219-butterflies-moths-and-ladybirds.lesson:10.
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, 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.
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