Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lobsters, whiting, turtles, the Mock Turtle, the Gryphon and the Caterpillar, sentence 15

A caterpillar is the young stage of a butterfly or moth; it eats leaves, grows and sheds its skin several times, then makes a chrysalis or cocoon and comes out with wings.

Who acts: caterpillar · What happens: be, eat, grow, shed, make, come out · To what, where: young stage, leaves, skin, chrysalis

This is a sentence of the lesson «Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lobsters, whiting, turtles, the Mock Turtle, the Gryphon and the Caterpillar» 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 (caterpillar), 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	2 caterpillar	det
2	caterpillar	caterpillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stage	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stage	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stage	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stage	amod
6	stage	stage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 butterfly	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 butterfly	det
9	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stage	nmod
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 moth	cc
11	moth	moth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 butterfly	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 stage	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 eats	nsubj
14	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stage	parataxis
15	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 eats	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 grows	punct
17	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 eats	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sheds	cc
19	sheds	shed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 eats	conj
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 skin	nmod:poss
21	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sheds	obj
22	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 times	amod
23	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 sheds	obl:unmarked
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 makes	punct
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 makes	advmod
26	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 eats	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 chrysalis	det
28	chrysalis	chrysalis	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 makes	obj
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 cocoon	cc
30	cocoon	cocoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 chrysalis	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 comes	cc
32	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 makes	conj
33	out	out	ADP	_	32 comes	compound:prt
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 wings	case
35	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 comes	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stage	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a caterpillar	the young stage		of a butterfly or moth	tree rules
2	eat	present	Caterpillar	leaves			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient
3	grow	present	Caterpillar not said here				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	shed	present	Caterpillar not said here	Caterpillar's skin	time		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location skin=Source
5	make	present	Caterpillar not said here	a chrysalis or cocoon	then		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset chrysalis=Product
6	come out	present	Caterpillar not said here			with wings	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

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:402-wonderland-sea-creatures-and-made-up-ones-lobster-whiting-turtle-mock-turtle-gryphon.lesson:15.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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