Life cycles and metamorphosis: frog, butterfly, ladybird, sentence 10
A new butterfly pumps fluid into its crumpled wings until they open and dry; the red drop below it is meconium, leftover waste, not blood.
Who acts: new butterfly, wings, red drop · What happens: pump, crumple, open, be · To what, where: fluid, crumpled wings, meconium
This is a sentence of the lesson «Life cycles and metamorphosis: frog, butterfly, ladybird» 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 (new butterfly, wings, red drop), 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 | 3 butterfly | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 butterfly | amod |
| 3 | butterfly | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pumps | nsubj |
| 4 | pumps | pump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | fluid | fluid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pumps | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 wings | case |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wings | nmod:poss |
| 8 | crumpled | crumple | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 wings | amod |
| 9 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pumps | obl |
| 10 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 12 open | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 open | nsubj |
| 12 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 pumps | advcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 dry | cc |
| 14 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 open | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 drop | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 drop | det |
| 17 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 drop | amod |
| 18 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 meconium | nsubj |
| 19 | below | below | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 drop | nmod |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 meconium | cop |
| 22 | meconium | meconium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pumps | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 waste | punct |
| 24 | leftover | leftover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 waste | compound |
| 25 | waste | waste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 meconium | appos |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 blood | punct |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 blood | advmod |
| 28 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 meconium | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pumps | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pump | present | a new butterfly | fluid | butterfly's crumpled wings | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fluid=Theme into wing=Destination | |||
| 2 | crumple | participle | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | open | present | wings = wing | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | the red drop below butterfly | meconium and blood | tree rules |
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:048-life-cycles-metamorphosis.lesson:10.
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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