Butterflies, moths and ladybirds, sentence 14

A peacock butterfly flashes the big eye spots on its wings to scare away birds, because the spots look like the eyes of a large animal.

Who acts: peacock butterfly, spots · What happens: flash, scare away, look · To what, where: big eye spots, wings, birds

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 (peacock butterfly, spots), 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	3 butterfly	det
2	peacock	peacock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 butterfly	compound
3	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flashes	nsubj
4	flashes	flash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 spots	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 spots	amod
7	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spots	compound
8	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 flashes	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 wings	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 wings	nmod:poss
11	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 spots	nmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 scare	mark
13	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 flashes	advcl
14	away	away	ADP	_	13 scare	compound:prt
15	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 scare	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 look	punct
17	because	because	SCONJ	_	20 look	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 spots	det
19	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 look	nsubj
20	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 flashes	advcl
21	like	like	ADP	_	23 eyes	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 eyes	det
23	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 look	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 animal	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 animal	det
26	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 animal	amod
27	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 eyes	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 flashes	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	flash	present	a peacock butterfly	the big eye spots	butterfly's wings		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent spot=Theme
2	scare away	to-infinitive	a peacock butterfly not said here	birds			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bird=Experiencer
3	look	present	the spots			like the eyes of a large animal	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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:14.

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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