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title: Then you spot black spiky caterpillars on those same nettles, the ba… — Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, dais… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then you spot black spiky caterpillars on those same nettles, the babies of peacock and red admiral butterflies. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, daisies, clover and plantain» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree 
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# Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, daisies, clover and plantain, sentence 3

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Then you spot black spiky caterpillars on those same nettles, the babies of peacock and red admiral butterflies.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** spot · **To what, where:** black spiky caterpillars, same nettles

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, daisies, clover and plantain» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:340-weeds-and-wildflowers-dandelions-nettles-daisies-clover-and-plantain.lesson:3
# text = Then you spot black spiky caterpillars on those same nettles, the babies of peacock and red admiral butterflies.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 340-weeds-and-wildflowers-dandelions-nettles-daisies-clover-and-plantain.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	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	spot	spot	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	spiky	spiky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	caterpillars	caterpillar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	nettles	nettle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	appos	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	peacock	peacock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	admiral	admiral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
20	.	.	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 | **spot** | present | you |  | black spiky caterpillars | that same nettles | then |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent caterpillar=Destination |

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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:340-weeds-and-wildflowers-dandelions-nettles-daisies-clover-and-plantain.lesson:3`.

**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/).

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