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title: Native flowers feed local insects best, and some caterpillars can ea… — What a child can do for nature · tree and pragmatics
description: Native flowers feed local insects best, and some caterpillars can eat only one kind of plant. Who acts: Native flowers, caterpillars. A sentence of the lesson «What a child can do for nature» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# What a child can do for nature, sentence 15

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Native flowers feed local insects best, and some caterpillars can eat only one kind of plant.

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**Who acts:** Native flowers, caterpillars · **What happens:** feed, eat · **To what, where:** local insects, one kind

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What a child can do for nature» 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 (Native flowers, caterpillars), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature.lesson:15
# text = Native flowers feed local insects best, and some caterpillars can eat only one kind of plant.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature.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): no change
1	Native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	feed	feed	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	best	well	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	3	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	caterpillars	caterpillar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **feed** | present | Native flowers |  | local insects |  |  | well *property* | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Recipient |
| 2 | **eat** | can | some caterpillars | one kind of plant |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient |

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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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**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:285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature.lesson:15`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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