Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lobsters, whiting, turtles, the Mock Turtle, the Gryphon and the Caterpillar, sentence 16

Alice tells the Caterpillar that one day it will turn into a chrysalis and then a butterfly, which is true science hidden in a silly conversation.

Who acts: Alice, Caterpillar, butterfly · What happens: tell, turn, be, hide · To what, where: Caterpillar, chrysalis, true science, silly conversation · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Alice, Caterpillar, 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	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 tells	nsubj
2	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Caterpillar	det
4	Caterpillar	caterpillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tells	obj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 turn	mark
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 day	nummod
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turn	obl:unmarked
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 turn	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 turn	aux
10	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tells	ccomp
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 chrysalis	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 chrysalis	det
13	chrysalis	chrysalis	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turn	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 butterfly	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 butterfly	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 butterfly	det
17	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 chrysalis	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 science	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 science	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 science	cop
21	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 science	amod
22	science	science	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 butterfly	acl:relcl
23	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 science	acl
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 conversation	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 conversation	det
26	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 conversation	amod
27	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hidden	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tells	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Alice		the Caterpillar			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent caterpillar=Recipient clause=Topic
2	turn	future	Caterpillar			a chrysalis and a butterfly	day	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into chrysalis=Trajectory
3	is a	present	a butterfly	true science				tree rules
4	hide	participle		true science not said here		a silly conversation		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in conversation=Location

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:16.

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): no change. 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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