Butterflies, moths and ladybirds, sentence 9

Moths get confused by lamps; a 2024 study reported that they turn their backs towards the brightest light, as they would towards the sky, and so circle it.

Who acts: Moths, 2024 study · What happens: get, report, turn, circle · To what, where: backs, brightest light, study

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 (Moths, 2024 study), 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	Moths	moth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 get	nsubj
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	confused	confused	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 get	xcomp
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 lamps	case
5	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 confused	obl
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 get	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 study	det
8	2024	2024	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 study	nummod
9	study	study	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 reported	nsubj
10	reported	report	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 get	parataxis
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 turn	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 turn	nsubj
13	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 reported	ccomp
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 backs	nmod:poss
15	backs	back	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 turn	obj
16	towards	towards	ADP	_	19 light	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 light	det
18	brightest	bright	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 light	amod
19	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 turn	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 would	punct
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 would	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 would	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 turn	advcl
24	towards	towards	ADP	_	26 sky	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sky	det
26	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 would	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 circle	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 circle	cc
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 circle	advmod
30	circle	circle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 turn	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 circle	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 get	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	present	Moths			confused property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	report	past	a 2024 study				vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	turn	present	Moths = moth	Moths's backs	the brightest light		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent back=Theme towards light=Trajectory
4	circle	infinitive	Moths = moth not said here	study			vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme

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:9.

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 ×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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