--- title: A butterfly has four stages, egg, caterpillar, chrysalis and adult;… — Life cycles and metamorphosis: frog, butterfly,… · tree and pragmatics description: A butterfly has four stages, egg, caterpillar, chrysalis and adult; peacock and red admiral butterflies lay eggs on nettles, the food their caterpillars eat, and a caterpillar moults about 4 or 5 times as it grows. Who acts: butterfly, peacock, caterpillars, 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 (butterfly, peacock, caterpillars, caterpillar), 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:8 # text = A butterfly has four stages, egg, caterpillar, chrysalis and adult; peacock and red admiral butterflies lay eggs on nettles, the food their caterpillars eat, and a caterpillar moults about 4 or 5 times as it grows. # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 butterfly butterfly NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 stages stage NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 caterpillar caterpillar NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 chrysalis chrysalis NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 15 peacock peacock NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 admiral admiral NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 butterflies butterfly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 20 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 21 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 nettles nettle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 appos _ _ 27 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 caterpillars caterpillar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 caterpillar caterpillar NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 moults moult VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 35 about about ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 37 or or CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 36 conj _ _ 39 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl:unmarked _ _ 40 as as SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 advcl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | a butterfly | four stages and egg and caterpillar and chrysalis and adult | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stage=Patient | | 2 | **lay** | present | peacock and red admiral butterflies | eggs | | nettles | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme on nettle=Destination | | 3 | **eat** | present | eggs's caterpillars | the food *not said here* | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | | 4 | **moult** | present | a caterpillar | | | | time | | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **grow** | present | caterpillar | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:8`. **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): no change. **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…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/48-life-cycles-metamorphosis/7/) - next →: [Life cycles and metamorphosis: frog, b…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/48-life-cycles-metamorphosis/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/48-life-cycles-metamorphosis/)