The butterfly house, sentence 10
Owl butterflies have large eye spots on the underside of their wings that may startle birds or draw their pecks away from the body.
Who acts: Owl butterflies, large eye spots · What happens: have, startle, draw · To what, where: large eye spots, underside, birds, pecks
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 (Owl butterflies, large eye 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 | Owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 butterflies | compound |
| 2 | butterflies | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 spots | amod |
| 5 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spots | compound |
| 6 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 underside | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 underside | det |
| 9 | underside | underside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 wings | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wings | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 underside | nmod |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 startle | nsubj |
| 14 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 startle | aux |
| 15 | startle | startle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 spots | acl:relcl |
| 16 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 startle | obj |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 draw | cc |
| 18 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 startle | conj |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 pecks | nmod:poss |
| 20 | pecks | peck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 draw | obj |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 draw | advmod |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 body | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 body | det |
| 24 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 away | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Owl butterflies | large eye spots | the underside of butterflies's wings | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Patient | |||
| 2 | startle | may | large eye spots | birds | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bird=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | draw | infinitive | large eye spots not said here | butterflies's pecks | away property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peck=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:10.
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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