--- title: The owl butterfly has big eye spots like an owl's eyes that may scar… — Masters of camouflage · tree and pragmatics description: The owl butterfly has big eye spots like an owl's eyes that may scare off birds, and many butterflies have eye spots to confuse predators. Who acts: owl butterfly, eyes, many butterflies. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (owl butterfly, eyes, many butterflies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:189-masters-of-camouflage.lesson:13 # text = The owl butterfly has big eye spots like an owl's eyes that may scare off birds, and many butterflies have eye spots to confuse predators. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 189-masters-of-camouflage.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 owl owl NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 butterfly butterfly NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 spots spot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 8 like like ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 owl owl NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 14 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 scare scare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 acl:relcl _ _ 16 off off ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 17 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 butterflies butterfly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 23 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 spots spot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 confuse confuse VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:acl 27 predators predator NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | the owl butterfly | big eye spots | | | | like a owl's eyes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Patient | | 2 | **scare off** | may | a owl's eyes | birds | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bird=Experiencer | | 3 | **have** | present | many butterflies | eye spots | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Patient | | 4 | **confuse** | to-infinitive | many butterflies *not said here* | predators | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent predator=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:189-masters-of-camouflage.lesson:13`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Masters of camouflage, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/189-masters-of-camouflage/12/) - next →: [Masters of camouflage, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/189-masters-of-camouflage/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/189-masters-of-camouflage/)