Life cycles, sentence 2
A butterfly has four very different stages: egg, caterpillar (larva), chrysalis (pupa) and adult; this big change is called metamorphosis.
Who acts: butterfly · What happens: have, call · To what, where: four different stages, big change · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (butterfly), 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 butterfly | det |
| 2 | butterfly | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 stages | nummod |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 different | advmod |
| 6 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stages | amod |
| 7 | stages | stage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 has | obj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 egg | punct |
| 9 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stages | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 caterpillar | punct |
| 11 | caterpillar | caterpillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 egg | conj |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 larva | punct |
| 13 | larva | larva | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 caterpillar | appos |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 larva | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 chrysalis | punct |
| 16 | chrysalis | chrysalis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 caterpillar | conj |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 pupa | punct |
| 18 | pupa | pupa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 chrysalis | appos |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 pupa | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 adult | cc |
| 21 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 chrysalis | conj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 called | punct |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 change | det |
| 24 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 change | amod |
| 25 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 called | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 called | aux:pass |
| 27 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 has | parataxis |
| 28 | metamorphosis | metamorphosis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 called | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a butterfly | four different stages | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stage=Patient | ||||
| 2 | call | present · passive | this big change | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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: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): R7-rel-agree ×3. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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