The butterfly house, sentence 15
Many caterpillars eat only one or a few kinds of plant, so gardens with the right plants help; nettles help red admiral and peacock butterflies in Britain.
Who acts: Many caterpillars, gardens, nettles · What happens: eat, help · To what, where: one, red admiral, Britain
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 (Many caterpillars, gardens, nettles), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 caterpillars | amod |
| 2 | caterpillars | caterpillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 eat | nsubj |
| 3 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 one | advmod |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 eat | obl |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 kinds | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 few | det |
| 8 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 kinds | amod |
| 9 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 one | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 plant | case |
| 11 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kinds | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gardens | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 help | advmod |
| 14 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 help | nsubj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 plants | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 plants | det |
| 17 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 plants | amod |
| 18 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 gardens | nmod |
| 19 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 eat | parataxis |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 help | punct |
| 21 | nettles | nettle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 help | nsubj |
| 22 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 help | conj |
| 23 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 admiral | amod |
| 24 | admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 help | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 butterflies | cc |
| 26 | peacock | peacock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 butterflies | compound |
| 27 | butterflies | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 admiral | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 Britain | case |
| 29 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 help | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 eat | 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 | eat | present | Many caterpillars | one or few kinds of plant | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | help | present | gardens with the right plants | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | help | present | nettles | red admiral and peacock butterflies | Britain | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent admiral=Beneficiary |
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:15.
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 ×2. 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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