Beetles: the biggest group of animals on Earth, wing cases and six legs, sentence 2

Watch a ladybird before it flies: its red shell splits down the middle and lifts, and thin wings unfold from underneath like origami.

Who acts: you, ladybird, red shell, thin wings · What happens: watch, fly, split, lift, unfold · To what, where: ladybird, underneath

This is a sentence of the lesson «Beetles: the biggest group of animals on Earth, wing cases and six legs» 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 (you, ladybird, red shell, thin wings), 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	Watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 ladybird	det
3	ladybird	ladybird	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Watch	obj
4	before	before	SCONJ	_	6 flies	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 flies	nsubj
6	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Watch	advcl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 splits	punct
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 shell	nmod:poss
9	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 shell	amod
10	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 splits	nsubj
11	splits	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Watch	parataxis
12	down	down	ADP	_	14 middle	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 middle	det
14	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 splits	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 lifts	cc
16	lifts	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 splits	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 unfold	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 unfold	cc
19	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 wings	amod
20	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 unfold	nsubj
21	unfold	unfold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 splits	conj
22	from	from	ADP	_	23 underneath	case
23	underneath	underneath	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 unfold	obl
24	like	like	ADP	_	25 origami	case
25	origami	origami	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 unfold	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Watch	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	watch	imperative	you not said here	a ladybird			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ladybird=Theme
2	fly	present	ladybird				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	split	present	ladybird's red shell			down the middle	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	lift	present	ladybird's red shell not said here				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	unfold	present	thin wings		underneath	like origami	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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:306-beetles-the-biggest-group-of-animals-on-earth-wing-cases-and-six-legs.lesson:2.

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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