The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, leopard, elephant, kangaroo, armadillo and crab, sentence 22

A cabbage white butterfly weighs much less than a gram, so its stamp could never shake a palace; butterflies taste with their feet.

Who acts: cabbage, stamp, butterflies · What happens: weigh, not shake, taste · To what, where: palace

This is a sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, leopard, elephant, kangaroo, armadillo and crab» 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 (cabbage, stamp, butterflies), 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	4 butterfly	det
2	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 weighs	nsubj
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 butterfly	amod
4	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 weighs	nsubj
5	weighs	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 taste	parataxis
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 less	advmod
7	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 weighs	advcl
8	than	than	ADP	_	10 gram	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 gram	det
10	gram	gram	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 less	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 shake	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	17 shake	advmod
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 stamp	nmod:poss
14	stamp	stamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shake	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 shake	aux
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 shake	advmod
17	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 weighs	parataxis
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 palace	det
19	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shake	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 taste	punct
21	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 taste	nsubj
22	taste	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 feet	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 feet	nmod:poss
25	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 taste	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 weighs	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	weigh	present	cabbage			vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
2	not shake	could	butterfly's stamp	a palace		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent palace=Patient
3	taste	present	butterflies		with cows's feet	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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:404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab.lesson:22.

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 ×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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