Life cycles and metamorphosis: frog, butterfly, ladybird, sentence 3
Cartoons show a caterpillar munching for a week, then popping out as a butterfly with a ribbon, and a ladybird with one spot for every birthday; real life cycles take longer, and spots never count years.
Who acts: Cartoons, real life cycles, spots · What happens: show, munch, pop out, take, not count · To what, where: caterpillar
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 (Cartoons, real life cycles, spots), 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 | Cartoons | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 show | nsubj |
| 2 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 caterpillar | det |
| 4 | caterpillar | caterpillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 show | obj |
| 5 | munching | munch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 show | advcl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 week | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 week | det |
| 8 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 munching | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 popping | punct |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 popping | advmod |
| 11 | popping | pop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 show | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 popping | compound:prt |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 butterfly | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 butterfly | det |
| 15 | butterfly | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 popping | obl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 ribbon | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 ribbon | det |
| 18 | ribbon | ribbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 butterfly | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ladybird | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 ladybird | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 ladybird | det |
| 22 | ladybird | ladybird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 caterpillar | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 spot | case |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 spot | nummod |
| 25 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ladybird | nmod |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 birthday | case |
| 27 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 birthday | det |
| 28 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 spot | nmod |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 take | punct |
| 30 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 cycles | amod |
| 31 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 cycles | compound |
| 32 | cycles | cycle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 take | nsubj |
| 33 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 show | parataxis |
| 34 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 33 take | advmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 count | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 count | cc |
| 37 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 count | nsubj |
| 38 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 39 count | advmod |
| 39 | count | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 take | conj |
| 40 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 count | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 show | 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 | show | present | Cartoons | a caterpillar and a ladybird with one spot for every birthday | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent caterpillar=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | munch | gerund | Cartoons not said here | week | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | pop out | gerund | Cartoons not said here | then | as a butterfly with a ribbon | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 4 | take | present | real life cycles | long property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | not count | present | spots | year | vn matter-91 «NP V»: 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:048-life-cycles-metamorphosis.lesson:3.
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 ×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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