--- title: Cartoons show a caterpillar munching for a week, then popping out as… — Life cycles and metamorphosis: frog, butterfly,… · tree and pragmatics description: Cartoons show a caterpillar munching for a week, then popping out as a butterfly with a ribbon, and a ladybird with one spot for every birthday; real life cycles take longer, and spots never count years. Who acts: Cartoons, real life cycles, spots. 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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 (Cartoons, real life cycles, spots), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:048-life-cycles-metamorphosis.lesson:3 # text = Cartoons show a caterpillar munching for a week, then popping out as a butterfly with a ribbon, and a ladybird with one spot for every birthday; real life cycles take longer, and spots never count years. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 048-life-cycles-metamorphosis.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 Cartoons cartoon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 caterpillar caterpillar NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 munching munch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 11 advmod _ _ 11 popping pop VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ _ 12 out out ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 as as ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 butterfly butterfly NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 ribbon ribbon NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 ladybird ladybird NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 spot spot NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 28 det _ _ 28 birthday birthday NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 31 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 cycles cycle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 34 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 33 advmod _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 37 spots spot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 38 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 39 count count VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 40 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **show** | present | Cartoons | | a caterpillar and a ladybird with one spot for every birthday | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent caterpillar=Recipient | | 2 | **munch** | gerund | Cartoons *not said here* | | | | week | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **pop out** | gerund | Cartoons *not said here* | | | | then | as a butterfly with a ribbon | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **take** | present | real life cycles | | | | | long *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **count** | present | spots | | | | year | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | 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:048-life-cycles-metamorphosis.lesson:3`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Life cycles and metamorphosis: frog, b…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/48-life-cycles-metamorphosis/1/) - next →: [Life cycles and metamorphosis: frog, b…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/48-life-cycles-metamorphosis/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/48-life-cycles-metamorphosis/)