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title: In a school box, small white caterpillars munch mulberry leaves so l… — Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed · tree and pragmatics
description: In a school box, small white caterpillars munch mulberry leaves so loudly that the tray sounds like soft rain. Who acts: small white caterpillars, tray. A sentence of the lesson «Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tre
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# Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed, sentence 0

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In a school box, small white caterpillars munch mulberry leaves so loudly that the tray sounds like soft rain.

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**Who acts:** small white caterpillars, tray · **What happens:** munch, sound · **To what, where:** mulberry leaves, school box

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed» 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 (small white caterpillars, tray), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed.lesson:0
# text = In a school box, small white caterpillars munch mulberry leaves so loudly that the tray sounds like soft rain.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed.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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	caterpillars	caterpillar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	munch	munch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	mulberry	mulberry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	tray	tray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
18	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **munch** | present | small white caterpillars | mulberry leaves |  | a school box |  | loudly *property* | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient |
| 2 | **sound** | present | the tray |  |  |  |  | like soft rain | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed.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): no change. **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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