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title: Silkworms are the caterpillars of the domestic silk moth, and they e… — Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed · tree and pragmatics
description: Silkworms are the caterpillars of the domestic silk moth, and they eat almost nothing but fresh mulberry leaves. Who acts: Silkworms. A sentence of the lesson «Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed, sentence 8

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Silkworms are the caterpillars of the domestic silk moth, and they eat almost nothing but fresh mulberry leaves.

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**Who acts:** Silkworms · **What happens:** be, eat · **To what, where:** caterpillars, nothing

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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 (Silkworms), 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:8
# text = Silkworms are the caterpillars of the domestic silk moth, and they eat almost nothing but fresh mulberry leaves.
# 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	Silkworms	silkworm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	caterpillars	caterpillar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	domestic	domestic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	moth	moth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	13	obj	_	_
16	but	but	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	mulberry	mulberry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Silkworms | the caterpillars |  |  |  | of the domestic silk moth | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | present | silkworms *= silkworm* | nothing |  |  |  | but fresh mulberry leaves | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |

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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:8`.

**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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