Butterflies, moths and ladybirds, sentence 5
A caterpillar turns into a butterfly inside a chrysalis, where its body breaks down and is rebuilt.
Who acts: caterpillar, body · What happens: turn, break down, rebuild · To what, where: 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, body), 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 caterpillar | det |
| 2 | caterpillar | caterpillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turns | nsubj |
| 3 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 butterfly | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 butterfly | det |
| 6 | butterfly | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turns | obl |
| 7 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 9 chrysalis | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 chrysalis | det |
| 9 | chrysalis | chrysalis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turns | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 breaks | punct |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 breaks | advmod |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 body | nmod:poss |
| 13 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 breaks | nsubj |
| 14 | breaks | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 chrysalis | acl:relcl |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 14 breaks | compound:prt |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 rebuilt | cc |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 rebuilt | aux:pass |
| 18 | rebuilt | rebuild | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 breaks | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turns | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present | a caterpillar | a chrysalis | into a butterfly | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme into butterfly=Source inside chrysalis=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | break down | present | butterfly's body | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | rebuild | present · passive | butterfly's body not said here | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP» |
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:5.
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 ×2. 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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