The butterfly house, sentence 0
The butterfly house is warm and damp like a rainforest, because butterflies are cold-blooded and the tropical kinds need warmth to fly.
Who acts: butterfly house, butterflies, tropical kinds · What happens: be, need, fly · To what, where: warmth
This is a sentence of the lesson «The butterfly house» 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 (butterfly house, butterflies, tropical kinds), 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 | 3 house | det |
| 2 | butterfly | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 house | compound |
| 3 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 warm | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 warm | cop |
| 5 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 damp | cc |
| 7 | damp | damp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 warm | conj |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 rainforest | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 rainforest | det |
| 10 | rainforest | rainforest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 damp | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 blooded | punct |
| 12 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 blooded | mark |
| 13 | butterflies | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 blooded | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 blooded | cop |
| 15 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 blooded | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 cold | punct |
| 17 | blooded | blooded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 warm | advcl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 need | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 kinds | det |
| 20 | tropical | tropical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 kinds | amod |
| 21 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 need | nsubj |
| 22 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 blooded | conj |
| 23 | warmth | warmth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 need | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 fly | mark |
| 25 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 need | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 warm | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the butterfly house | warm property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the butterfly house not said here | like a rainforest | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | present | butterflies | blooded property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | need | present | the tropical kinds | warmth | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot warmth=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fly | to-infinitive | the tropical kinds not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:098-the-butterfly-house.lesson:0.
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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