The butterfly house, sentence 5

Butterfly houses are kept warm and humid; butterflies need a body temperature of about 30 degrees to fly well, so they bask in the sun.

Who acts: butterflies · What happens: keep, need, fly, bask · To what, where: Butterfly houses, body temperature, sun.

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), 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	Butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 houses	compound
2	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kept	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	aux:pass
4	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kept	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 humid	cc
7	humid	humid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 warm	conj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 need	punct
9	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 need	nsubj
10	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	parataxis
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 temperature	det
12	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 temperature	compound
13	temperature	temperature	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 need	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 degrees	case
15	about	about	ADV	_	16 30	advmod
16	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 degrees	nummod
17	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 temperature	nmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 fly	mark
19	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 need	advcl
20	well	well	ADV	_	19 fly	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bask	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	24 bask	advmod
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 bask	nsubj
24	bask	bask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	parataxis
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 sun.	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 sun.	det
27	sun.	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bask	obl

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep	present · passive		Butterfly houses		warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	need	present	butterflies	a body temperature of 30 degrees			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot temperature=Theme
3	fly	to-infinitive	butterflies not said here			well property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	bask	present	butterflies = butterfly		the sun.		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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:5.

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 ×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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