--- title: Watch a ladybird before it flies: its red shell splits down the midd… — Beetles: the biggest group of animals on Earth,… · tree and pragmatics description: Watch a ladybird before it flies: its red shell splits down the middle and lifts, and thin wings unfold from underneath like origami. Who acts: you, ladybird, red shell, thin wings. A sentence of the lesson «Beetles: the biggest group of animals on Earth, wing cases and six legs» of the biology cour --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/306-beetles-the-biggest-group-of-animals-on-earth-wing-cases-and-six-legs/2/) [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/) / [Beetles: the biggest group of animals…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/306-beetles-the-biggest-group-of-animals-on-earth-wing-cases-and-six-legs/) / 2 # Beetles: the biggest group of animals on Earth, wing cases and six legs, sentence 2 Watch a ladybird before it flies: its red shell splits down the middle and lifts, and thin wings unfold from underneath like origami. **Who acts:** you, ladybird, red shell, thin wings · **What happens:** watch, fly, split, lift, unfold · **To what, where:** ladybird, underneath This is a sentence of the lesson «Beetles: the biggest group of animals on Earth, wing cases and six legs» 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 (you, ladybird, red shell, thin wings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:306-beetles-the-biggest-group-of-animals-on-earth-wing-cases-and-six-legs.lesson:2 # text = Watch a ladybird before it flies: its red shell splits down the middle and lifts, and thin wings unfold from underneath like origami. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 306-beetles-the-biggest-group-of-animals-on-earth-wing-cases-and-six-legs.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 ×2 1 Watch watch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 ladybird ladybird NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 before before SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 flies fly VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 8 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 splits split VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 12 down down ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 lifts lift VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 unfold unfold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:parataxis 22 from from ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 underneath underneath NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 24 like like ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 origami origami NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:nmod 26 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** | imperative | you *not said here* | a ladybird | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ladybird=Theme | | 2 | **fly** | present | ladybird | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **split** | present | ladybird's red shell | | | | | down the middle | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **lift** | present | ladybird's red shell *not said here* | | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **unfold** | present | thin wings | | | underneath | | like origami | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:306-beetles-the-biggest-group-of-animals-on-earth-wing-cases-and-six-legs.lesson:2`. **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 ×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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