Insects: butterflies, beetles, flies, mosquitoes, grasshoppers, sentence 5
Inside a chrysalis much of the caterpillar's body breaks down, and groups of waiting cells build the wings, legs and body of the butterfly.
Who acts: much, groups · What happens: break down, wait, build · To what, where: chrysalis, wings
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 (much, groups), 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 | Inside | inside | ADP | _ | 3 chrysalis | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 chrysalis | det |
| 3 | chrysalis | chrysalis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 breaks | obl |
| 4 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 breaks | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 body | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 caterpillar | det |
| 7 | caterpillar | caterpillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 body | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 caterpillar | case |
| 9 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 much | nmod |
| 10 | breaks | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 breaks | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 build | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 groups | cc |
| 14 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 build | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 cells | case |
| 16 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 cells | amod |
| 17 | cells | cell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 groups | nmod |
| 18 | build | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 breaks | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wings | det |
| 20 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 build | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 legs | punct |
| 22 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 wings | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 body | cc |
| 24 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wings | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 butterfly | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 butterfly | det |
| 27 | butterfly | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wings | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 breaks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break down | present | much of the caterpillar's body | a chrysalis | down property | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | wait | gerund | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | build | present | groups of waiting cells | the wings of the butterfly and legs and body | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wing=Product |
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:5.
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 ×3, R6-punct-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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