--- title: A green caterpillar hangs upside down, turns into a chrysalis, and i… — Insects: butterflies, beetles, flies, mosquitoes… · tree and pragmatics description: A green caterpillar hangs upside down, turns into a chrysalis, and inside much of its body melts into a kind of soup that is rebuilt into a butterfly: a body for eating becomes a body for flying. Who acts: green caterpillar, body. 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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 (green caterpillar, body), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:037-butterflies-beetles-flies-mosquitoes-grasshoppers.lesson:0 # text = A green caterpillar hangs upside down, turns into a chrysalis, and inside much of its body melts into a kind of soup that is rebuilt into a butterfly: a body for eating becomes a body for flying. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 037-butterflies-beetles-flies-mosquitoes-grasshoppers.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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 caterpillar caterpillar NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nsubj 4 hangs hang VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 5 upside upside NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 advmod _ _ 6 down down ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 8 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 into into ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 chrysalis chrysalis NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 14 inside inside ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 much much ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 melts melt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 20 into into ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 soup soup NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 rebuilt rebuild VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:acl:relcl 28 into into ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 butterfly butterfly NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 : : PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 34 for for SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 35 eating eating NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 36 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:obj 39 for for SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 40 flying fly VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 38 acl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hang** | present | a green caterpillar | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **turn** | present | | | | a chrysalis | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into chrysalis=Trajectory | | 3 | **melt** | present | | | | a kind of soup | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into kind=Product | | 4 | **rebuild** | present · passive | | a kind of soup | | | | into a butterfly | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | | 5 | **become** | present | a body eating | a body | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **fly** | gerund | a body *not said here* | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:037-butterflies-beetles-flies-mosquitoes-grasshoppers.lesson:0`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×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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