The butterfly house, sentence 1

A blue morpho flashes bright blue, then vanishes into brown when it closes its wings; another butterfly stares at you with a big fake eye; a glasswing is almost invisible against the leaves.

Who acts: blue morpho, morpho, butterfly, glasswing · What happens: flash, vanish, close, stare, be · To what, where: brown, wings

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 (blue morpho, morpho, butterfly, glasswing), 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 morpho	det
2	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morpho	amod
3	morpho	morpho	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flashes	nsubj
4	flashes	flash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 blue	amod
6	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 flashes	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 vanishes	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 vanishes	advmod
9	vanishes	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 flashes	conj
10	into	into	ADP	_	11 brown	case
11	brown	brown	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 vanishes	obl
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 closes	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 closes	nsubj
14	closes	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 vanishes	advcl
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 wings	nmod:poss
16	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 closes	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 stares	punct
18	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	19 butterfly	det
19	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stares	nsubj
20	stares	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 flashes	conj
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 you	case
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 stares	obl
23	with	with	ADP	_	27 eye	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 eye	det
25	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 eye	amod
26	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 eye	amod
27	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stares	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 invisible	punct
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 glasswing	det
30	glasswing	glasswing	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 invisible	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 invisible	cop
32	almost	almost	ADV	_	33 invisible	advmod
33	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 stares	conj
34	against	against	ADP	_	36 leaves	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 leaves	det
36	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 invisible	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 flashes	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flash	present	a blue morpho				blue property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	vanish	present	a blue morpho not said here		brown	then		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	close	present	morpho	morpho's wings				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
4	stare	present	another butterfly				at you; with a big fake eye	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at you=Theme
5	is	present	a glasswing				against the leaves; almost, invisible property	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:098-the-butterfly-house.lesson:1.

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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