--- title: Only the caterpillars of a few kinds of moth eat wool clothes; most… — Butterflies, moths and ladybirds · tree and pragmatics description: Only the caterpillars of a few kinds of moth eat wool clothes; most moths never touch clothes at all. Who acts: caterpillars, most moths. A sentence of the lesson «Butterflies, moths and ladybirds» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/219-butterflies-moths-and-ladybirds/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Butterflies, moths and ladybirds](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/219-butterflies-moths-and-ladybirds/) / 10 # Butterflies, moths and ladybirds, sentence 10 Only the caterpillars of a few kinds of moth eat wool clothes; most moths never touch clothes at all. **Who acts:** caterpillars, most moths · **What happens:** eat, not touch · **To what, where:** wool clothes, clothes, all 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 (caterpillars, most moths), 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:10 # text = Only the caterpillars of a few kinds of moth eat wool clothes; most moths never touch clothes at all. # 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 ×1 1 Only only ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advmod 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 caterpillars caterpillar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 moth moth NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 wool wool NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 10 obj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 14 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 15 amod _ _ 15 moths moth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 16 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 touch touch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 18 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 17 obj _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 18 nmod _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | present | the caterpillars of a few kinds of moth | wool clothes | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient | | 2 | **not** **touch** | present | most moths | clothes | | all | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme clothes=Co-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:10`. **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 ×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, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/219-butterflies-moths-and-ladybirds/9/) - next →: [Butterflies, moths and ladybirds, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/219-butterflies-moths-and-ladybirds/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/219-butterflies-moths-and-ladybirds/)