Animals of North America and Britain: moose, bald eagles, raccoons, beavers, foxes, badgers, hedgehogs, robins, sentence 16

The monarchs' journey north takes several generations, so the butterflies returning to Mexico are the great-great-grandchildren of those that left.

Who acts: journey north, butterflies, monarchs · What happens: take, return, be, leave, journey · To what, where: several generations, Mexico, great great grandchildren

This is a sentence of the lesson «Animals of North America and Britain: moose, bald eagles, raccoons, beavers, foxes, badgers, hedgehogs, robins» 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 (journey north, butterflies, monarchs), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 monarchs	det
2	monarchs	monarch	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 journey	nmod:poss
3	'	's	PART	_	2 monarchs	case
4	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 north	compound
5	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 takes	nsubj
6	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 generations	amod
8	generations	generation	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 takes	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 grandchildren	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	22 grandchildren	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 butterflies	det
12	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 grandchildren	nsubj
13	returning	return	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 butterflies	acl
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 Mexico	case
15	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 returning	obl
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 grandchildren	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 grandchildren	det
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 grandchildren	amod
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 great	punct
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 grandchildren	amod
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 great	punct
22	grandchildren	grandchild	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 takes	parataxis
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 those	case
24	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	22 grandchildren	nmod
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 left	nsubj
26	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 those	acl:relcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 takes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	take	present	journey north	several generations			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent generation=Theme
2	return	gerund	the butterflies not said here		Mexico		vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to mexico=Result
3	is a	present	the butterflies	the great great grandchildren		of those	tree rules
4	leave	past					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	journey		the monarchs				nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent

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:080-animals-of-north-america-and-britain.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): R7-rel-agree ×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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