--- title: A peacock butterfly flashes the big eye spots on its wings to scare… — Butterflies, moths and ladybirds · tree and pragmatics description: A peacock butterfly flashes the big eye spots on its wings to scare away birds, because the spots look like the eyes of a large animal. Who acts: peacock butterfly, spots. 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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 (peacock butterfly, spots), 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:14 # text = A peacock butterfly flashes the big eye spots on its wings to scare away birds, because the spots look like the eyes of a large animal. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 peacock peacock NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 butterfly butterfly NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 flashes flash VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 spots spot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 scare scare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:acl 14 away away ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 because because SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 spots spot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 21 like like ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **flash** | present | a peacock butterfly | the big eye spots | | butterfly's wings | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent spot=Theme | | 2 | **scare away** | to-infinitive | a peacock butterfly *not said here* | birds | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bird=Experiencer | | 3 | **look** | present | the spots | | | | | like the eyes of a large animal | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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:14`. **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: [Butterflies, moths and ladybirds, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/219-butterflies-moths-and-ladybirds/13/) - next →: [Butterflies, moths and ladybirds, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/219-butterflies-moths-and-ladybirds/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/219-butterflies-moths-and-ladybirds/)