The butterfly house, sentence 9

Inside a chrysalis the caterpillar's body breaks down and is rebuilt as a butterfly; cocoons are spun by moths, not butterflies; butterfly houses often buy pupae from butterfly farms in tropical countries, where local people earn money while keeping the forest standing.

Who acts: body, moths, butterfly houses, local people · What happens: break down, rebuild, spin, buy, earn, keep · To what, where: chrysalis, cocoons, pupae, butterfly farms, money, forest

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 (body, moths, butterfly houses, local people), 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	Inside	inside	ADP	_	3 chrysalis	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 chrysalis	det
3	chrysalis	chrysalis	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 breaks	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 caterpillar	det
5	caterpillar	caterpillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 body	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 caterpillar	case
7	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 breaks	nsubj
8	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	down	down	ADP	_	8 breaks	compound:prt
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 rebuilt	cc
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 rebuilt	aux:pass
12	rebuilt	rebuild	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 breaks	conj
13	as	as	ADP	_	15 butterfly	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 butterfly	det
15	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rebuilt	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 spun	punct
17	cocoons	cocoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 spun	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 spun	aux:pass
19	spun	spin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 breaks	parataxis
20	by	by	ADP	_	21 moths	case
21	moths	moth	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 spun	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 butterflies	punct
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 butterflies	advmod
24	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 moths	conj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 buy	punct
26	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 houses	compound
27	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 buy	nsubj
28	often	often	ADV	_	29 buy	advmod
29	buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 breaks	parataxis
30	pupae	pupa	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 buy	obj
31	from	from	ADP	_	33 farms	case
32	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 farms	compound
33	farms	farm	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 buy	obl
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 countries	case
35	tropical	tropical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 countries	amod
36	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 farms	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 people	punct
38	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	41 earn	advmod
39	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 people	amod
40	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 earn	nsubj
41	earn	earn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 countries	acl:relcl
42	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 earn	obj
43	while	while	SCONJ	_	44 keeping	mark
44	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	41 earn	advcl
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 forest	det
46	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 keeping	obj
47	standing	standing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 keeping	xcomp
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 breaks	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	break down	present	the caterpillar's body		a chrysalis		vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	rebuild	present · passive	the caterpillar's body not said here			as a butterfly	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: as butterfly=Attribute
3	spin	present · passive	moths and butterflies	cocoons			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
4	buy	present	butterfly houses	pupae	butterfly farms in tropical countries	often property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent pupa=Theme from farm=Source
5	earn	present	local people	money			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
6	keep	gerund	local people not said here	the forest		standing property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=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:9.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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