Life cycles and metamorphosis: frog, butterfly, ladybird, sentence 9

Inside the chrysalis most of the caterpillar breaks down into a soup, and groups of cells waiting since it hatched build wings, legs, eyes and antennae from it.

Who acts: most, cells, caterpillar, groups · What happens: break down, wait, hatch, build · To what, where: chrysalis, wings

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 (most, cells, caterpillar, groups), 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	Inside	inside	ADP	_	3 chrysalis	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 chrysalis	det
3	chrysalis	chrysalis	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 breaks	obl
4	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 breaks	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 caterpillar	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 caterpillar	det
7	caterpillar	caterpillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 most	nmod
8	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	down	down	ADP	_	8 breaks	compound:prt
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 soup	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 soup	det
12	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 breaks	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 groups	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 build	cc
15	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 build	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 cells	case
17	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 groups	nmod
18	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 cells	acl
19	since	since	SCONJ	_	21 hatched	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 hatched	nsubj
21	hatched	hatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 waiting	advcl
22	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 breaks	conj
23	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 build	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 legs	punct
25	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 wings	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 eyes	punct
27	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 wings	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 antennae	cc
29	antennae	antenna	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 wings	conj
30	from	from	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 build	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 breaks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	break down	present	most of the caterpillar		the chrysalis	into a soup result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into soup=Result
2	wait	gerund	cells not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hatch	past	caterpillar				vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient
4	build	present	groups of cells	wings and legs and eyes and antennae		from caterpillar	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset wing=Product from it=Material

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:9.

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, R8-pos-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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