The butterfly house, sentence 4

In The Very Hungry Caterpillar the caterpillar eats cake and sausage and builds a cocoon, but real caterpillars eat only their own food plants, and butterflies make a chrysalis.

Who acts: caterpillar, real caterpillars, butterflies · What happens: eat, build, make · To what, where: cake, cocoon, own food plants, chrysalis

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 (caterpillar, real caterpillars, butterflies), 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	In	in	ADP	_	5 Caterpillar	case
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Caterpillar	det
3	Very	very	ADV	_	4 Hungry	advmod
4	Hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Caterpillar	amod
5	Caterpillar	caterpillar	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 eats	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 caterpillar	det
7	caterpillar	caterpillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eats	nsubj
8	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eats	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sausage	cc
11	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cake	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 builds	cc
13	builds	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 eats	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 cocoon	det
15	cocoon	cocoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 builds	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 eat	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 eat	cc
18	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 caterpillars	amod
19	caterpillars	caterpillar	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 eat	nsubj
20	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 eats	conj
21	only	only	ADV	_	25 plants	advmod
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 plants	nmod:poss
23	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 plants	amod
24	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 plants	compound
25	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 eat	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 make	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 make	cc
28	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 make	nsubj
29	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 eat	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 chrysalis	det
31	chrysalis	chrysalis	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 make	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 eats	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	present	the caterpillar	cake and sausage	in the Hungry Caterpillar	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient
2	build	present	the caterpillar not said here	a cocoon		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cocoon=Product
3	eat	present	real caterpillars	cake's own food plants		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient
4	make	present	butterflies	a chrysalis		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chrysalis=Product

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:4.

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, 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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