Insects: butterflies, beetles, flies, mosquitoes, grasshoppers, sentence 6

Butterflies have taste sensors on their feet and drink through a long tube called a proboscis that stays rolled up like a party blower.

Who acts: Butterflies, long tube, proboscis · What happens: have, drink, call, stay, roll up · To what, where: taste sensors, feet, long tube, proboscis · Speech: someone speaks here

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, long tube, proboscis), 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	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sensors	compound
4	sensors	sensor	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	on	on	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 sensors	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 drink	cc
9	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	conj
10	through	through	ADP	_	13 tube	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 tube	det
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tube	amod
13	tube	tube	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drink	obl
14	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 tube	acl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 proboscis	det
16	proboscis	proboscis	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 called	obj
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 stays	nsubj
18	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 proboscis	acl:relcl
19	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 stays	xcomp
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 rolled	compound:prt
21	like	like	ADP	_	24 blower	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 blower	det
23	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 blower	compound
24	blower	blower	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 rolled	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	Butterflies	taste sensors	sensors's feet		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sensor=Patient
2	drink	present	Butterflies not said here		a long tube		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	call	participle	a long tube not said here	a proboscis			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent proboscis=Recipient
4	stay	present	a proboscis				tree rules
5	roll up	participle	a proboscis not said here			like a party blower	vn run-51.3.2-2 «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:6.

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): R8-pos-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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