The butterfly house, sentence 14
Monarchs taste bad to birds because their caterpillars eat poisonous milkweed.
Who acts: Monarchs, caterpillars · What happens: taste, eat · To what, where: poisonous milkweed
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 (Monarchs, caterpillars), 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 | Monarchs | monarch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 taste | nsubj |
| 2 | taste | taste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 taste | xcomp |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 birds | case |
| 5 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 taste | obl |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 eat | mark |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 caterpillars | nmod:poss |
| 8 | caterpillars | caterpillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 eat | nsubj |
| 9 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 taste | advcl |
| 10 | poisonous | poisonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 milkweed | amod |
| 11 | milkweed | milkweed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eat | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 taste | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | taste | present | Monarchs | to birds; bad property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to bird=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | eat | present | Monarchs's caterpillars | poisonous milkweed | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milkweed=Patient |
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:14.
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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