Butterflies, moths and ladybirds, sentence 17
A moth's caterpillar often makes a silk cocoon before it changes, but a butterfly's caterpillar makes a bare chrysalis.
Who acts: caterpillar · What happens: make, change · To what, where: silk cocoon, bare chrysalis
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 (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 moth | det |
| 2 | moth | moth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 caterpillar | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 moth | case |
| 4 | caterpillar | caterpillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 makes | nsubj |
| 5 | often | often | ADV | _ | 6 makes | advmod |
| 6 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cocoon | det |
| 8 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cocoon | compound |
| 9 | cocoon | cocoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 makes | obj |
| 10 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 12 changes | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 changes | nsubj |
| 12 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 makes | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 makes | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 makes | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 butterfly | det |
| 16 | butterfly | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 caterpillar | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 butterfly | case |
| 18 | caterpillar | caterpillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 makes | nsubj |
| 19 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 makes | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 chrysalis | det |
| 21 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 chrysalis | amod |
| 22 | chrysalis | chrysalis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 makes | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | a moth's caterpillar | a silk cocoon | often property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cocoon=Product | |||
| 2 | change | present | caterpillar | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | make | present | a butterfly's caterpillar | a bare chrysalis | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chrysalis=Product |
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:17.
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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