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title: Real caterpillars do change, but in a different way: they become but… — Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lob… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real caterpillars do change, but in a different way: they become butterflies or moths. Who acts: Real caterpillars, people. A sentence of the lesson «Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lobsters, whiting, turtles, the Mock Turtle, the Gryphon and the Caterpillar» of the biology course of Mo
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# Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lobsters, whiting, turtles, the Mock Turtle, the Gryphon and the Caterpillar, sentence 5

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Real caterpillars do change, but in a different way: they become butterflies or moths.

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**Who acts:** Real caterpillars, people · **What happens:** change, become · **To what, where:** butterflies, different way

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lobsters, whiting, turtles, the Mock Turtle, the Gryphon and the Caterpillar» 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 (Real caterpillars, people), 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:5
# text = Real caterpillars do change, but in a different way: they become butterflies or moths.
# 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
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	caterpillars	caterpillar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	xcomp	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	moths	moth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **change** | present · do-support | Real caterpillars |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **become** | present | people | butterflies or moths |  |  |  | in a different way *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in way=Result |

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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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**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. **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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