The butterfly house, sentence 2
Butterflies cannot chew: they uncurl a long tube called a proboscis to drink from orange slices and rotting bananas, and they taste with their feet when they land.
Who acts: Butterflies, long tube · What happens: not chew, uncurl, call, drink, rot, taste · To what, where: long tube, proboscis, orange slices · Speech: someone speaks here
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, long tube), 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 | 4 chew | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 chew | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 chew | advmod |
| 4 | chew | chew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 uncurl | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 uncurl | nsubj |
| 7 | uncurl | uncurl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 chew | parataxis |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tube | det |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tube | amod |
| 10 | tube | tube | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 uncurl | obj |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 tube | acl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 proboscis | det |
| 13 | proboscis | proboscis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 called | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 drink | mark |
| 15 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 proboscis | acl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 slices | case |
| 17 | orange | orange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 slices | amod |
| 18 | slices | slice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 drink | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bananas | cc |
| 20 | rotting | rot | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 bananas | amod |
| 21 | bananas | banana | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 slices | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 taste | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 taste | cc |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 taste | nsubj |
| 25 | taste | taste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 uncurl | conj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 feet | case |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 feet | nmod:poss |
| 28 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 taste | obl |
| 29 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 land | advmod |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 land | nsubj |
| 31 | land | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 taste | advcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 chew | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not chew | can | Butterflies | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | uncurl | present | butterflies = butterfly | a long tube | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | a long tube not said here | a proboscis | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent proboscis=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | drink | to-infinitive | a long tube not said here | a proboscis not said here | orange slices and rotting bananas | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from slice=Source | |||
| 5 | rot | gerund | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 6 | taste | present | butterflies = butterfly | with butterflies's feet | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | land | present | butterflies = butterfly | vn pocket-9.10-1 «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:2.
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 ×1, 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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