The butterfly house, sentence 6

The blue morpho's wings are bright blue on top and brown with eye spots underneath; the blue comes from tiny structures on the scales that reflect blue light, not from pigment.

Who acts: wings, blue, scales · What happens: be, come, reflect · To what, where: top, tiny structures, blue light

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 (wings, blue, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morpho	det
2	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morpho	amod
3	morpho	morpho	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wings	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 morpho	case
5	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 blue	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 blue	cop
7	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 blue	amod
8	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 top	case
10	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 blue	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 brown	cc
12	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 blue	conj
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 spots	case
14	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 spots	compound
15	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 brown	obl
16	underneath	underneath	ADV	_	15 spots	advmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 comes	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 blue	det
19	blue	blue	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 comes	nsubj
20	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 blue	parataxis
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 structures	case
22	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 structures	amod
23	structures	structure	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 comes	obl
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 scales	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 scales	det
26	scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 structures	nmod
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 reflect	nsubj
28	reflect	reflect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 scales	acl:relcl
29	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 light	amod
30	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 reflect	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 pigment	punct
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 pigment	advmod
33	from	from	ADP	_	34 pigment	case
34	pigment	pigment	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 light	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 blue	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the blue morpho's wings		top	blue property	tree rules
2	be		the blue morpho's wings not said here			with eye spots	tree rules
3	come	present	the blue		tiny structures on the scales		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from structure=Initial_Location
4	reflect	present	the scales	blue light and pigment			tree rules

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:6.

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. 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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