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title: Butterflies have taste sensors on their feet and drink through a lon… — Insects: butterflies, beetles, flies, mosquitoes… · tree and pragmatics
description: Butterflies have taste sensors on their feet and drink through a long tube called a proboscis that stays rolled up like a party blower. Who acts: Butterflies, long tube, proboscis. A sentence of the lesson «Insects: butterflies, beetles, flies, mosquitoes, grasshoppers» of the biology course of Mova
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# Insects: butterflies, beetles, flies, mosquitoes, grasshoppers, sentence 6

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Butterflies have taste sensors on their feet and drink through a long tube called a proboscis that stays rolled up like a party blower.

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**Who acts:** Butterflies, long tube, proboscis · **What happens:** have, drink, call, stay, roll up · **To what, where:** taste sensors, feet, long tube, proboscis · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Butterflies, long tube, proboscis), 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:6
# text = Butterflies have taste sensors on their feet and drink through a long tube called a proboscis that stays rolled up like a party blower.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	sensors	sensor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	on	on	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	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	drink	drink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
10	through	through	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	tube	tube	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	proboscis	proboscis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	xcomp	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	like	like	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	blower	blower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **have** | present | Butterflies | taste sensors |  | sensors's feet |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sensor=Patient |
| 2 | **drink** | present | Butterflies *not said here* |  |  | a long tube |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **call** | participle | a long tube *not said here* | a proboscis |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent proboscis=Recipient |
| 4 | **stay** | present | a proboscis |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **roll up** | participle | a proboscis *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like a party blower | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:037-butterflies-beetles-flies-mosquitoes-grasshoppers.lesson:6`.

**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): R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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