--- title: A caterpillar is the young stage of a butterfly or moth; it eats lea… — Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lob… · tree and pragmatics description: A caterpillar is the young stage of a butterfly or moth; it eats leaves, grows and sheds its skin several times, then makes a chrysalis or cocoon and comes out with wings. Who acts: caterpillar. 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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 (caterpillar), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:402-wonderland-sea-creatures-and-made-up-ones-lobster-whiting-turtle-mock-turtle-gryphon.lesson:15 # text = A caterpillar is the young stage of a butterfly or moth; it eats leaves, grows and sheds its skin several times, then makes a chrysalis or cocoon and comes out with wings. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 402-wonderland-sea-creatures-and-made-up-ones-lobster-whiting-turtle-mock-turtle-gryphon.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 caterpillar caterpillar NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 stage stage NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 butterfly butterfly NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 moth moth NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 15 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 sheds shed VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=17:conj 20 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:obj 22 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl:unmarked _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=14:punct 25 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 26 advmod _ _ 26 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 chrysalis chrysalis NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 or or CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 cocoon cocoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 33 out out ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **is a** | present | a caterpillar | the young stage | | | | of a butterfly or moth | tree rules | | 2 | **eat** | present | Caterpillar | leaves | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient | | 3 | **grow** | present | Caterpillar *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **shed** | present | Caterpillar *not said here* | Caterpillar's skin | | | time | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location skin=Source | | 5 | **make** | present | Caterpillar *not said here* | a chrysalis or cocoon | | | then | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset chrysalis=Product | | 6 | **come out** | present | Caterpillar *not said here* | | | | | with wings | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: 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:402-wonderland-sea-creatures-and-made-up-ones-lobster-whiting-turtle-mock-turtle-gryphon.lesson:15`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, 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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