The butterfly house, sentence 8
Butterflies drink nectar, fruit juice and water through a long proboscis that uncurls like a party blower, and they taste with their feet.
Who acts: Butterflies, long proboscis · What happens: drink, uncurl, taste · To what, where: nectar, long proboscis
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 proboscis), 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 | 2 drink | nsubj |
| 2 | drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nectar | nectar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drink | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 juice | punct |
| 5 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 juice | compound |
| 6 | juice | juice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nectar | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 water | cc |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nectar | conj |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 proboscis | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 proboscis | det |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 proboscis | amod |
| 12 | proboscis | proboscis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drink | obl |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 uncurls | nsubj |
| 14 | uncurls | uncurl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 proboscis | acl:relcl |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 blower | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 blower | det |
| 17 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 blower | compound |
| 18 | blower | blower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 uncurls | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 taste | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 taste | cc |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 taste | nsubj |
| 22 | taste | taste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 drink | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 feet | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 feet | nmod:poss |
| 25 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 taste | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drink | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | present | Butterflies | nectar and fruit juice and water | a long proboscis | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nectar=Patient | |||
| 2 | uncurl | present | a long proboscis | like a party blower | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | taste | present | butterflies = butterfly | with butterflies's feet | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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:8.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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