The butterfly house, sentence 12
The glasswing butterfly has clear patches on its wings with few scales, which makes it hard to see against leaves and flowers.
Who acts: glasswing butterfly · What happens: have, make, see · To what, where: clear patches, 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 (glasswing butterfly), 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 butterfly | det |
| 2 | glasswing | glasswing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 butterfly | compound |
| 3 | butterfly | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 patches | amod |
| 6 | patches | patch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 has | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 wings | case |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wings | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 patches | nmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 scales | case |
| 11 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 scales | amod |
| 12 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 wings | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 makes | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 makes | nsubj |
| 15 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 has | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 hard | obj |
| 17 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 makes | xcomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 see | mark |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 hard | xcomp |
| 20 | against | against | ADP | _ | 21 leaves | case |
| 21 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 see | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 flowers | cc |
| 23 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 leaves | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the glasswing butterfly | clear patches | fat's wings with few scales | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patch=Patient | |||
| 2 | make | present | hard property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | against leaves and flowers | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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:12.
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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