--- title: A silkworm grows thousands of times heavier in about a month and she… — Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed · tree and pragmatics description: A silkworm grows thousands of times heavier in about a month and sheds its skin four times, because old skin cannot stretch. Who acts: silkworm, old skin. 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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 (silkworm, old skin), 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:11 # text = A silkworm grows thousands of times heavier in about a month and sheds its skin four times, because old skin cannot stretch. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 silkworm silkworm NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 7 heavier heavy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 xcomp _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 about about ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 sheds shed VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl:unmarked _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 because because SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 20 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 stretch stretch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advcl 25 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **grow** | present | a silkworm | | | | month | heavy *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **shed** | present | a silkworm *not said here* | moth's skin | | | time | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location skin=Source | | 3 | **not** **stretch** | can | old skin | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed.lesson:11`. **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 ×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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