Insects: butterflies, beetles, flies, mosquitoes, grasshoppers, sentence 1

Butterflies and flies taste with their feet, so a red admiral landing on a rotting plum is tasting it as it lands.

Who acts: Butterflies, red admiral, butterfly · What happens: taste, land, rot · To what, where: rotting plum, butterfly

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 (Butterflies, red admiral, butterfly), 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	4 taste	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 flies	cc
3	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Butterflies	conj
4	taste	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 feet	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 feet	nmod:poss
7	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 taste	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tasting	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	19 tasting	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 admiral	det
11	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 admiral	amod
12	admiral	admiral	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tasting	nsubj
13	landing	land	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 tasting	acl
14	on	on	ADP	_	17 plum	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 plum	det
16	rotting	rot	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 plum	amod
17	plum	plum	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 landing	obl
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 tasting	aux
19	tasting	taste	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 taste	parataxis
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 tasting	obj
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 lands	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 lands	nsubj
23	lands	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 tasting	advcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 taste	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	taste	present	Butterflies and flies			with flies's feet	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	land	gerund			a rotting plum		vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on plum=Destination
3	rot	gerund					vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	taste	present · progressive	a red admiral	butterfly			vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme it=Attribute
5	land	present	butterfly				vn pocket-9.10-1 «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:1.

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 ×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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