Butterflies, moths and ladybirds, sentence 12
Ladybirds eat aphids, and one ladybird can eat thousands of aphids in its life.
Who acts: Ladybirds, one ladybird · What happens: eat · To what, where: aphids, thousands, life
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 (Ladybirds, one ladybird), 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 | Ladybirds | ladybird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 eat | nsubj |
| 2 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | aphids | aphid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 eat | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 eat | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 eat | cc |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 ladybird | nummod |
| 7 | ladybird | ladybird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eat | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 eat | aux |
| 9 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 eat | conj |
| 10 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 eat | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 aphids | case |
| 12 | aphids | aphid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 thousands | nmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 life | case |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 life | nmod:poss |
| 15 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eat | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 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 | Ladybirds | aphids | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aphid=Patient | ||||
| 2 | eat | can | one ladybird | thousands of aphids | ladybird's life | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=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:219-butterflies-moths-and-ladybirds.lesson:12.
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): no change. 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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