The butterfly house, sentence 16
Many tropical butterflies drink from rotting fruit and mud puddles to get sugar and salts, and in the Amazon some even drink turtles' tears.
Who acts: Many tropical butterflies, some · What happens: drink, get · To what, where: rotting fruit puddles, sugar, tears, Amazon
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 tropical butterflies, some), 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 | 3 butterflies | amod |
| 2 | tropical | tropical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 butterflies | amod |
| 3 | butterflies | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 drink | nsubj |
| 4 | drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 puddles | case |
| 6 | rotting | rot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 puddles | amod |
| 7 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 puddles | compound |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 mud | cc |
| 9 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fruit | conj |
| 10 | puddles | puddle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 drink | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 get | mark |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 drink | advcl |
| 13 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 get | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 salts | cc |
| 15 | salts | salt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sugar | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 drink | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 drink | cc |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 Amazon | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Amazon | det |
| 20 | Amazon | Amazon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 drink | obl |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 drink | nsubj |
| 22 | even | even | ADV | _ | 23 drink | advmod |
| 23 | drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 drink | conj |
| 24 | turtles | turtle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 tears | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 24 turtles | case |
| 26 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 drink | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 drink | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | present | Many tropical butterflies | rotting fruit puddles | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from puddle=Source | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | Many tropical butterflies not said here | sugar and salts | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sugar=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | drink | present | some | turtles's tears | the Amazon | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tear=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:16.
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): R1-cc-next ×2, 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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