The butterfly house, sentence 3

If one lands on your sleeve, let it be, because its wings are covered in tiny scales like dust that rub off easily.

Who acts: one, you, sleeve, tiny scales · What happens: land, let, be, cover, rub off · To what, where: sleeve, wings

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 (one, you, sleeve, tiny scales), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 lands	mark
2	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 lands	nsubj
3	lands	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 let	advcl
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 sleeve	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sleeve	nmod:poss
6	sleeve	sleeve	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lands	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sleeve	punct
8	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 let	obj
10	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 let	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 be	punct
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	16 covered	mark
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 wings	nmod:poss
14	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 covered	nsubj:pass
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 covered	aux:pass
16	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 let	advcl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 scales	case
18	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 scales	amod
19	scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 covered	obl
20	like	like	ADP	_	21 dust	case
21	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 scales	nmod
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 rub	nsubj
23	rub	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 scales	acl:relcl
24	off	off	ADP	_	23 rub	compound:prt
25	easily	easily	ADV	_	23 rub	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 let	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	land a condition, not said to happen	present	one		your sleeve		vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on sleeve=Destination
2	let	imperative	you not said here	sleeve			tree rules
3	be	infinitive	sleeve not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	cover	present · passive		sleeve's wings		in tiny scales like dust	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in scale=Theme
5	rub off	present	tiny scales like dust			easily property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: 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:3.

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. 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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