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title: The domestic silk moth cannot fly properly and no longer lives in th… — Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed · tree and pragmatics
description: The domestic silk moth cannot fly properly and no longer lives in the wild; it depends on people completely. Who acts: domestic silk moth, it. 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 
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# Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed, sentence 9

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The domestic silk moth cannot fly properly and no longer lives in the wild; it depends on people completely.

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**Who acts:** domestic silk moth, it · **What happens:** not fly, live, depend · **To what, where:** wild

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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 (domestic silk moth, it), 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:9
# text = The domestic silk moth cannot fly properly and no longer lives in the wild; it depends on people completely.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	domestic	domestic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	moth	moth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc
10	no	no	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
12	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wild	wild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	depends	depend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
21	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **not** **fly** | can | the domestic silk moth |  |  |  |  | properly *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | present | the domestic silk moth *not said here* |  |  | the wild |  | long *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wild=Location |
| 3 | **depend** | present | it |  |  |  |  | on people; completely *property* | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on people=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:381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed.lesson:9`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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.

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

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