Life cycles, sentence 12
A caterpillar does most of the eating and growing in a butterfly's life.
Who acts: caterpillar · What happens: do, grow · To what, where: most, life
This is a sentence of the lesson «Life cycles» of the world 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 (caterpillar), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 caterpillar | det |
| 2 | caterpillar | caterpillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 does | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 does | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 eating | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 eating | det |
| 7 | eating | eating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 most | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 growing | cc |
| 9 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 eating | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 life | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 butterfly | det |
| 12 | butterfly | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 life | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 butterfly | case |
| 14 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 growing | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 does | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | a caterpillar | most of the eating | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | grow | gerund | a caterpillar not said here | a butterfly's life | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in life=Location |
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:world:025-life-cycles.lesson:12.
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): no change. 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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