--- title: The silkworm, a caterpillar that eats mulberry leaves, spins silk fo… — The big biology quiz, part 4: everything from le… · tree and pragmatics description: The silkworm, a caterpillar that eats mulberry leaves, spins silk for its cocoon; people in China have kept silkworms for thousands of years, and the domestic silk moth can no longer live in the wild. Who acts: caterpillar, people. A sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 4: everything f --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The big biology quiz, part 4: everythi…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399/) / 14 # The big biology quiz, part 4: everything from lessons 301 to 399, sentence 14 The silkworm, a caterpillar that eats mulberry leaves, spins silk for its cocoon; people in China have kept silkworms for thousands of years, and the domestic silk moth can no longer live in the wild. **Who acts:** caterpillar, people · **What happens:** eat, spin, keep, live · **To what, where:** mulberry leaves, silk, silkworms, wild This is a sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 4: everything from lessons 301 to 399» 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 (caterpillar, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399.lesson:14 # text = The silkworm, a caterpillar that eats mulberry leaves, spins silk for its cocoon; people in China have kept silkworms for thousands of years, and the domestic silk moth can no longer live in the wild. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399.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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 silkworm silkworm NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 caterpillar caterpillar NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 mulberry mulberry NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 spins spin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 12 silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 cocoon cocoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 17 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 20 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ _ 22 silkworms silkworm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 30 domestic domestic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 31 silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 moth moth NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 33 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 34 no no ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 36 advmod _ _ 36 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 wild wild NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | present | a caterpillar | mulberry leaves | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient | | 2 | **spin** | present | a caterpillar *not said here* | silk | | | | for leaf's cocoon | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent silk=Result for cocoon=Beneficiary | | 3 | **keep** | present · perfect | people in China | silkworms | | | | for thousands of years | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silkworm=Theme | | 4 | **live** | can | people in China *not said here* | | | the wild | | long *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wild=Location | 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. 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