Insects: butterflies, beetles, flies, mosquitoes, grasshoppers, sentence 2

The coloured dust a moth leaves on your fingers is thousands of tiny scales laid like roof tiles, which is why it is kinder to watch than to hold them.

Who acts: moth, coloured dust, tiny scales, thousands · What happens: leave, be, lay, watch, hold · To what, where: coloured dust, fingers, thousands, tiles

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 (moth, coloured dust, tiny scales, thousands), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dust	det
2	coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dust	amod
3	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thousands	nsubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 moth	det
5	moth	moth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leaves	nsubj
6	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dust	acl:relcl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 fingers	case
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 fingers	nmod:poss
9	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 leaves	obl
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 thousands	cop
11	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 scales	case
13	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 scales	amod
14	scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 thousands	nmod
15	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 scales	acl
16	like	like	ADP	_	18 tiles	case
17	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tiles	compound
18	tiles	tile	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 laid	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 kinder	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 kinder	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 kinder	cop
22	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	25 kinder	advmod
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 kinder	expl
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 kinder	cop
25	kinder	kind	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 thousands	parataxis
26	to	to	PART	_	27 watch	mark
27	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 kinder	xcomp
28	than	than	SCONJ	_	30 hold	mark
29	to	to	PART	_	30 hold	mark
30	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 watch	ccomp
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 hold	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 thousands	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	present	a moth	the coloured dust not said here	your fingers		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent dust=Theme on finger=Location
2	is a	present	the coloured dust	thousands		of tiny scales	tree rules
3	lay	past	tiny scales not said here			like roof tiles	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	thousands			kind property	tree rules
5	watch	to-infinitive	thousands not said here				tree rules
6	hold	to-infinitive	thousands not said here	tiles = tile			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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: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): 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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