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title: The blue morpho butterfly's wing scales have tiny ridges that reflec… — Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animal… · tree and pragmatics
description: The blue morpho butterfly's wing scales have tiny ridges that reflect blue light, and its brown underside with eye spots makes it seem to vanish when it closes its wings. Who acts: wing scales, tiny ridges, brown underside, it. A sentence of the lesson «Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue anim
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# Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animals, white albinos and black panthers, sentence 9

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The blue morpho butterfly's wing scales have tiny ridges that reflect blue light, and its brown underside with eye spots makes it seem to vanish when it closes its wings.

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**Who acts:** wing scales, tiny ridges, brown underside, it, underside · **What happens:** have, reflect, make, seem, vanish, close · **To what, where:** tiny ridges, blue light, wings

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animals, white albinos and black panthers» 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 (wing scales, tiny ridges, brown underside, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:367-animal-colours-pink-flamingos-rare-blue-animals-white-albinos-and-black-panthers.lesson:9
# text = The blue morpho butterfly's wing scales have tiny ridges that reflect blue light, and its brown underside with eye spots makes it seem to vanish when it closes its wings.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 367-animal-colours-pink-flamingos-rare-blue-animals-white-albinos-and-black-panthers.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	morpho	morpho	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	scales	scale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	ridges	ridge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	reflect	reflect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	underside	underside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	seem	seem	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	vanish	vanish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	closes	close	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
31	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **have** | present | the blue morpho butterfly's wing scales | tiny ridges |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ridge=Patient |
| 2 | **reflect** | present | tiny ridges | blue light |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | present | light's brown underside with eye spots |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **seem** | infinitive | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 5 | **vanish** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **close** | present | underside | underside's wings |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=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:367-animal-colours-pink-flamingos-rare-blue-animals-white-albinos-and-black-panthers.lesson:9`.

**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): 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.

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