--- title: A butterfly lands on a leaf and tastes it with its feet, to check wh… — Butterflies, moths and ladybirds · tree and pragmatics description: A butterfly lands on a leaf and tastes it with its feet, to check whether it is the right plant for its eggs, and it basks in the sun because a cold butterfly cannot fly. Who acts: butterfly, cold butterfly. 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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 (butterfly, cold butterfly), 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:1 # text = A butterfly lands on a leaf and tastes it with its feet, to check whether it is the right plant for its eggs, and it basks in the sun because a cold butterfly cannot fly. # 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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 butterfly butterfly NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 lands land VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 leaf leaf NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 tastes taste VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 check check VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:appos 16 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 ccomp _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 basks bask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 because because SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 butterfly butterfly NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 36 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 37 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 38 advmod _ _ 38 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **land** | present | a butterfly | | | a leaf | | | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on leaf=Destination | | 2 | **taste** | present | a butterfly *not said here* | butterfly | | | | with butterfly's feet | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme it=Attribute | | 3 | **check** | to-infinitive | a butterfly *not said here* | | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | butterfly | the right plant | | | | for butterfly's eggs | tree rules | | 5 | **bask** | present | butterfly | | | the sun | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **not** **fly** | can | a cold butterfly | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:219-butterflies-moths-and-ladybirds.lesson:1`. **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. **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: [Butterflies, moths and ladybirds, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/219-butterflies-moths-and-ladybirds/0/) - next →: [Butterflies, moths and ladybirds, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/219-butterflies-moths-and-ladybirds/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/219-butterflies-moths-and-ladybirds/)