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title: A fat green caterpillar munches leaves for weeks, then hangs up and… — Butterflies, moths and ladybirds · tree and pragmatics
description: A fat green caterpillar munches leaves for weeks, then hangs up and hardens into a chrysalis, and inside that little case its body breaks down and is rebuilt into a butterfly, like a house taken apart and built again as something new. Who acts: fat green caterpillar, body. A sentence of the lesson «
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# Butterflies, moths and ladybirds, sentence 0

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A fat green caterpillar munches leaves for weeks, then hangs up and hardens into a chrysalis, and inside that little case its body breaks down and is rebuilt into a butterfly, like a house taken apart and built again as something new.

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**Who acts:** fat green caterpillar, body · **What happens:** munch, hang up, harden, break down, rebuild, take apart · **To what, where:** leaves, chrysalis, little case, house

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Butterflies, moths and ladybirds» of the biology 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 (fat green caterpillar, body), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:219-butterflies-moths-and-ladybirds.lesson:0
# text = A fat green caterpillar munches leaves for weeks, then hangs up and hardens into a chrysalis, and inside that little case its body breaks down and is rebuilt into a butterfly, like a house taken apart and built again as something new.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 219-butterflies-moths-and-ladybirds.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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	caterpillar	caterpillar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	munches	munch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
11	hangs	hang	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	hardens	harden	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	chrysalis	chrysalis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
20	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
22	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	breaks	break	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
27	down	down	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	rebuilt	rebuild	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
31	into	into	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	like	like	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:advcl
38	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	acl	_	_
39	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	conj	_	_
42	again	again	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
43	as	as	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	41	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=41:obj
45	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **munch** | present | a fat green caterpillar | leaves |  |  | week |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient |
| 2 | **hang up** | present | a fat green caterpillar *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **harden** | present | a fat green caterpillar *not said here* |  |  | a chrysalis |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **break down** | present | caterpillar's body |  |  | that little case |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **rebuild** | present · passive | caterpillar's body *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into a butterfly; like a house | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP» |
| 6 | **take apart** | participle |  | a house *not said here* |  |  |  | apart *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **build** | participle |  |  |  |  | again | as something | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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.

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**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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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