Butterflies, moths and ladybirds, sentence 6
Butterflies taste with their feet; a female uses them to check that a leaf is the right one for her eggs.
Who acts: Butterflies, female, leaf · What happens: taste, use, check, be · To what, where: aphids, right one
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, female, leaf), 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 | 2 taste | nsubj |
| 2 | taste | taste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 feet | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 feet | nmod:poss |
| 5 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 taste | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 uses | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 female | det |
| 8 | female | female | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 uses | nsubj |
| 9 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 taste | parataxis |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 uses | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 check | mark |
| 12 | check | check | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 uses | advcl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 one | mark |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 leaf | det |
| 15 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 one | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 one | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 one | det |
| 18 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 one | amod |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 check | ccomp |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 eggs | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 eggs | nmod:poss |
| 22 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 one | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 taste | 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 | taste | present | Butterflies | with aphids's feet | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | use | present | a female | aphids = aphid | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 3 | check | to-infinitive | a female not said here | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | a leaf | the right one | for female's eggs | 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:6.
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): R7-rel-agree ×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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