The butterfly house, sentence 17

Butterflies are insects with six legs and four wings, but in many kinds, like monarchs and peacocks, the front pair of legs is tiny, so they seem to stand on four.

Who acts: Butterflies, front pair · What happens: be, seem, stand · To what, where: insects, four

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 (Butterflies, front pair), 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	Butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 insects	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 insects	cop
3	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 legs	case
5	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 legs	nummod
6	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 insects	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wings	cc
8	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 wings	nummod
9	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 legs	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 kinds	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 kinds	cc
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 kinds	case
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 kinds	amod
14	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 legs	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 monarchs	punct
16	like	like	ADP	_	17 monarchs	case
17	monarchs	monarch	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 kinds	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 peacocks	cc
19	peacocks	peacock	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 monarchs	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 tiny	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 pair	det
22	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 pair	amod
23	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tiny	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 legs	case
25	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 pair	nmod
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 tiny	cop
27	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 insects	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 seem	punct
29	so	so	ADV	_	31 seem	advmod
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 seem	nsubj
31	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 tiny	parataxis
32	to	to	PART	_	33 stand	mark
33	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 seem	xcomp
34	on	on	ADP	_	35 four	case
35	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 stand	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 insects	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Butterflies	insects		with six legs and four wings but many kinds like monarchs and peacocks	tree rules
2	is	present	the front pair of legs			tiny property	tree rules
3	seem	present	butterflies = butterfly				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	stand	to-infinitive	butterflies = butterfly not said here		four		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on four=Location

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:17.

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): R7-rel-agree ×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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