The butterfly house, sentence 13

Monarch butterflies fly thousands of kilometres from Canada and the USA to mountains in Mexico for winter, and it takes several generations to fly north again.

Who acts: Monarch butterflies, it · What happens: fly, take · To what, where: thousands, Canada, several generations

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 (Monarch butterflies, it), 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	Monarch	monarch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 butterflies	compound
2	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fly	nsubj
3	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fly	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 kilometres	case
6	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 thousands	nmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 Canada	case
8	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 fly	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 USA	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 USA	det
11	USA	USA	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Canada	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 mountains	case
13	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fly	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 Mexico	case
15	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 mountains	nmod
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 winter	case
17	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fly	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 takes	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 takes	cc
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 takes	nsubj
21	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fly	conj
22	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 generations	amod
23	generations	generation	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 takes	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 fly	mark
25	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 generations	acl
26	north	north	ADV	_	25 fly	advmod
27	again	again	ADV	_	25 fly	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fly	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	fly	present	Monarch butterflies	thousands of kilometres	Canada and the USA	winter	to mountains in Mexico	vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent thousand=Theme from canada=Initial_Location to mountain=Destination
2	take	present	it	several generations				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent generation=Theme
3	fly	to-infinitive		several generations not said here		again	north property	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:13.

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 ×4. 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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