The butterfly house, sentence 11

The atlas moth is one of the biggest moths, as big as a plate; adults have no mouth, do not eat and live only one or two weeks on fat stored as caterpillars.

Who acts: atlas moth, adults · What happens: be, have, not eat, live, store · To what, where: one, mouth, fat

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 (atlas moth, adults), 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 moth	det
2	atlas	atlas	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moth	compound
3	moth	moth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 one	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 one	cop
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 moths	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 moths	det
8	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 moths	amod
9	moths	moth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 one	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 big	punct
11	as	as	ADV	_	12 big	advmod
12	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 moths	amod
13	as	as	ADP	_	15 plate	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 plate	det
15	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 big	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
17	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 have	nsubj
18	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 one	parataxis
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 mouth	det
20	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 eat	punct
22	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 eat	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 eat	advmod
24	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 have	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 live	cc
26	live	live	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	24 eat	conj
27	only	only	ADV	_	28 one	advmod
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 weeks	nummod
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 two	cc
30	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 one	conj
31	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 live	obl:unmarked
32	on	on	ADP	_	33 fat	case
33	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 weeks	nmod
34	stored	store	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 fat	acl
35	as	as	ADP	_	36 caterpillars	case
36	caterpillars	caterpillar	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 stored	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the atlas moth	one		of the biggest moths	tree rules
2	have	present	adults	no mouth			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient
3	not eat	present · do-support	adults not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	live	infinitive	adults not said here		week		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	store	participle		fat not said here		as caterpillars	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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:098-the-butterfly-house.lesson:11.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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