Life cycles, sentence 4
A caterpillar eats and eats, growing many times bigger, then inside the chrysalis its body is rebuilt into a butterfly with wings.
Who acts: caterpillar · What happens: eat, grow, rebuild · To what, where: body, chrysalis
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 eats | nsubj |
| 3 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 rebuilt | parataxis |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 eats | cc |
| 5 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 eats | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 growing | punct |
| 7 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 eats | advcl |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 times | amod |
| 9 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bigger | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 growing | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 chrysalis | punct |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 chrysalis | advmod |
| 13 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 15 chrysalis | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 chrysalis | det |
| 15 | chrysalis | chrysalis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rebuilt | obl |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 body | nmod:poss |
| 17 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rebuilt | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 rebuilt | aux:pass |
| 19 | rebuilt | rebuild | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 butterfly | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 butterfly | det |
| 22 | butterfly | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rebuilt | obl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 wings | case |
| 24 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 butterfly | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 eats | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | a caterpillar | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | eat | present | a caterpillar not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | grow | gerund | a caterpillar not said here | big property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | rebuild | present · passive | plant's body | the chrysalis | into a butterfly with wings | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
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:4.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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.
See the release 0.4.
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