--- title: Butterflies and flies taste with their feet, so a red admiral landin… — Insects: butterflies, beetles, flies, mosquitoes… · tree and pragmatics description: Butterflies and flies taste with their feet, so a red admiral landing on a rotting plum is tasting it as it lands. Who acts: Butterflies, red admiral, butterfly. A sentence of the lesson «Insects: butterflies, beetles, flies, mosquitoes, grasshoppers» of the biology course of Mova's primary school w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/37-butterflies-beetles-flies-mosquitoes-grasshoppers/1/) [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/) / [Insects: butterflies, beetles, flies,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/37-butterflies-beetles-flies-mosquitoes-grasshoppers/) / 1 # Insects: butterflies, beetles, flies, mosquitoes, grasshoppers, sentence 1 Butterflies and flies taste with their feet, so a red admiral landing on a rotting plum is tasting it as it lands. **Who acts:** Butterflies, red admiral, butterfly · **What happens:** taste, land, rot · **To what, where:** rotting plum, butterfly This is a sentence of the lesson «Insects: butterflies, beetles, flies, mosquitoes, grasshoppers» 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 (Butterflies, red admiral, butterfly), 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:1 # text = Butterflies and flies taste with their feet, so a red admiral landing on a rotting plum is tasting it as it lands. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Butterflies butterfly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 flies fly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 taste taste VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 admiral admiral NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 13 landing land VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 acl _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 rotting rot VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 amod _ _ 17 plum plum NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 tasting taste VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 as as SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 lands land VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **taste** | present | Butterflies and flies | | | | | with flies's feet | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **land** | gerund | | | | a rotting plum | | | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on plum=Destination | | 3 | **rot** | gerund | | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **taste** | present · progressive | a red admiral | butterfly | | | | | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme it=Attribute | | 5 | **land** | present | butterfly | | | | | | vn pocket-9.10-1 «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:1`. **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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