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title: A cabbage white butterfly weighs much less than a gram, so its stamp… — The real animals of the Just So Stories: the wha… · tree and pragmatics
description: A cabbage white butterfly weighs much less than a gram, so its stamp could never shake a palace; butterflies taste with their feet. Who acts: cabbage, stamp, butterflies. A sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, leopard, elephant, kangaroo, armadill
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# The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, leopard, elephant, kangaroo, armadillo and crab, sentence 22

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A cabbage white butterfly weighs much less than a gram, so its stamp could never shake a palace; butterflies taste with their feet.

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**Who acts:** cabbage, stamp, butterflies · **What happens:** weigh, not shake, taste · **To what, where:** palace

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, leopard, elephant, kangaroo, armadillo and crab» 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 (cabbage, stamp, butterflies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab.lesson:22
# text = A cabbage white butterfly weighs much less than a gram, so its stamp could never shake a palace; butterflies taste with their feet.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:det
2	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:amod
4	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:compound
5	weighs	weigh	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	_
6	much	much	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	advcl	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	gram	gram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	stamp	stamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	shake	shake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	taste	taste	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22: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 | **weigh** | present | cabbage |  |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **shake** | could | butterfly's stamp | a palace |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent palace=Patient |
| 3 | **taste** | present | butterflies |  |  |  |  | with cows's feet | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab.lesson:22`.

**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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-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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