Insects: butterflies, beetles, flies, mosquitoes, grasshoppers, sentence 0
A green caterpillar hangs upside down, turns into a chrysalis, and inside much of its body melts into a kind of soup that is rebuilt into a butterfly: a body for eating becomes a body for flying.
Who acts: green caterpillar, body · What happens: hang, turn, melt, rebuild, become, fly · To what, where: chrysalis, kind, body
This is a sentence of the lesson «Insects: butterflies, beetles, flies, mosquitoes, grasshoppers» 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 (green 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 | 3 caterpillar | det |
| 2 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 caterpillar | amod |
| 3 | caterpillar | caterpillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hangs | nsubj |
| 4 | hangs | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 turns | conj |
| 5 | upside | upside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hangs | advmod |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 upside | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 turns | punct |
| 8 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 chrysalis | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 chrysalis | det |
| 11 | chrysalis | chrysalis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turns | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 melts | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 melts | cc |
| 14 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 15 much | advmod |
| 15 | much | much | ADV | _ | 19 melts | advmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 body | case |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 body | nmod:poss |
| 18 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 much | nmod |
| 19 | melts | melt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 turns | conj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 kind | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 kind | det |
| 22 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 melts | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 soup | case |
| 24 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 kind | nmod |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 rebuilt | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 rebuilt | aux:pass |
| 27 | rebuilt | rebuild | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 kind | acl:relcl |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 butterfly | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 butterfly | det |
| 30 | butterfly | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 rebuilt | obl |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 33 body | punct |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 body | det |
| 33 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 becomes | nsubj |
| 34 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 35 eating | mark |
| 35 | eating | eating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 body | nmod |
| 36 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 turns | parataxis |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 body | det |
| 38 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 becomes | xcomp |
| 39 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 40 flying | mark |
| 40 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 body | acl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hangs | 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 | hang | present | a green caterpillar | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | turn | present | a chrysalis | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into chrysalis=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | melt | present | a kind of soup | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into kind=Product | |||||
| 4 | rebuild | present · passive | a kind of soup | into a butterfly | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | ||||
| 5 | become | present | a body eating | a body | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | fly | gerund | a body not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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:037-butterflies-beetles-flies-mosquitoes-grasshoppers.lesson:0.
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, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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