Chickens, goats and little creatures, sentence 2

Butterflies lose the tiny scales on their wings when touched, fireflies and other insects die quickly in jars, and every little animal has a job in nature.

Who acts: Butterflies, fireflies, little animal · What happens: lose, touch, die, have · To what, where: tiny scales, wings, job, nature

This is a sentence of the lesson «Chickens, goats and little creatures» of the everyday 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, fireflies, little animal), 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 lose	nsubj
2	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 scales	det
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 scales	amod
5	scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lose	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 wings	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wings	nmod:poss
8	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 scales	nmod
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 touched	advmod
10	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 lose	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 die	punct
12	fireflies	firefly	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 die	nsubj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 insects	cc
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 insects	amod
15	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 fireflies	conj
16	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 lose	conj
17	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	16 die	advmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 jars	case
19	jars	jar	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 die	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 has	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 has	cc
22	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	24 animal	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 animal	amod
24	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 has	nsubj
25	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 lose	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 job	det
27	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 has	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 nature	case
29	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 job	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lose	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lose	present	Butterflies	the tiny scales	Butterflies's wings		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scale=Eventuality
2	touch	participle	Butterflies not said here				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	die	present	fireflies and other insects			in jars; quickly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in jar=Attribute
4	have	present	every little animal	a job	nature		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Patient

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:everyday:068-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures.lesson:2.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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