Butterflies, moths and ladybirds, sentence 11

A ladybird's bright red and black colours warn birds that it tastes bad, and when attacked it oozes a smelly yellow fluid from its legs.

Who acts: bright red colours, caterpillar · What happens: warn, taste, attack, ooze · To what, where: birds, smelly yellow fluid, legs

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 (bright red colours, caterpillar), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ladybird	det
2	ladybird	ladybird	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 colours	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 ladybird	case
4	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 colours	amod
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 colours	amod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 black	cc
7	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 red	conj
8	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 warn	nsubj
9	warn	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 warn	obj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 tastes	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 tastes	nsubj
13	tastes	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 warn	advcl
14	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tastes	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 oozes	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 oozes	cc
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 attacked	advmod
18	attacked	attack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 oozes	advcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 oozes	nsubj
20	oozes	ooze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 warn	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 fluid	det
22	smelly	smelly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 fluid	amod
23	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 fluid	amod
24	fluid	fluid	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 oozes	obj
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 legs	case
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 legs	nmod:poss
27	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 oozes	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 warn	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	present	a ladybird's bright red colours		birds			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bird=Recipient
2	taste	present	caterpillar				bad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	attack	participle	caterpillar not said here					vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	ooze	present	caterpillar	a smelly yellow fluid		caterpillar's legs		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fluid=Source

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: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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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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