Butterflies, moths and ladybirds, sentence 16
Butterflies, moths and ladybirds are insects, with six legs and two pairs of wings; a ladybird's front pair are hard red covers over its thin flying wings.
Who acts: Butterflies, front pair · What happens: be · To what, where: insects, hard red covers, thin flying wings
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 (Butterflies, front pair), 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 | Butterflies | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 insects | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 moths | punct |
| 3 | moths | moth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Butterflies | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 ladybirds | cc |
| 5 | ladybirds | ladybird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Butterflies | conj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 insects | cop |
| 7 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 legs | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 legs | case |
| 10 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 legs | nummod |
| 11 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 insects | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 pairs | cc |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 pairs | nummod |
| 14 | pairs | pair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 legs | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 wings | case |
| 16 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 pairs | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 covers | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 ladybird | det |
| 19 | ladybird | ladybird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pair | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 ladybird | case |
| 21 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 pair | amod |
| 22 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 covers | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 covers | cop |
| 24 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 covers | amod |
| 25 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 covers | amod |
| 26 | covers | cover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 insects | parataxis |
| 27 | over | over | ADP | _ | 31 wings | case |
| 28 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 wings | nmod:poss |
| 29 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 wings | amod |
| 30 | flying | flying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 wings | compound |
| 31 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 covers | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 insects | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Butterflies and moths and ladybirds | insects | with six legs and two pairs of wings | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | a ladybird's front pair | hard red covers | butterfly's thin flying wings | tree rules |
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:16.
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): R2-punct-next ×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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