Butterflies, moths and ladybirds, sentence 7
Butterflies rest in the sun to warm up, because they cannot fly when they are too cold.
Who acts: Butterflies, leaves · What happens: rest, warm up, not fly, be · To what, where: sun
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, leaves), 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 rest | nsubj |
| 2 | rest | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 sun | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sun | det |
| 5 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rest | obl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 warm | mark |
| 7 | warm | warm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 rest | advcl |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 warm | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fly | punct |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 fly | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 fly | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 fly | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 fly | advmod |
| 14 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 rest | advcl |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 cold | advmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 cold | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 cold | cop |
| 18 | too | too | ADV | _ | 19 cold | advmod |
| 19 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fly | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rest | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | present | Butterflies | the sun | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in sun=Location | ||||
| 2 | warm up | to-infinitive | Butterflies not said here | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | not fly | can | leaves = leaf | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | present | leaves = leaf | cold property | 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:7.
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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