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title: Inside a chrysalis much of the caterpillar's body breaks down, and g… — Insects: butterflies, beetles, flies, mosquitoes… · tree and pragmatics
description: Inside a chrysalis much of the caterpillar's body breaks down, and groups of waiting cells build the wings, legs and body of the butterfly. Who acts: much, groups. A sentence of the lesson «Insects: butterflies, beetles, flies, mosquitoes, grasshoppers» of the biology course of Mova's primary school
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# Insects: butterflies, beetles, flies, mosquitoes, grasshoppers, sentence 5

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Inside a chrysalis much of the caterpillar's body breaks down, and groups of waiting cells build the wings, legs and body of the butterfly.

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**Who acts:** much, groups · **What happens:** break down, wait, build · **To what, where:** chrysalis, wings

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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 (much, groups), 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:5
# text = Inside a chrysalis much of the caterpillar's body breaks down, and groups of waiting cells build the wings, legs and body of the butterfly.
# 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	Inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	chrysalis	chrysalis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	caterpillar	caterpillar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
10	breaks	break	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:conj
11	down	down	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	amod	_	_
17	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	build	build	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break down** | present | much of the caterpillar's body |  |  | a chrysalis |  | down *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **wait** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **build** | present | groups of waiting cells | the wings of the butterfly and legs and body |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wing=Product |

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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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**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 ×3, R6-punct-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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