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title: Inside the chrysalis most of the caterpillar breaks down into a soup… — Life cycles and metamorphosis: frog, butterfly,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Inside the chrysalis most of the caterpillar breaks down into a soup, and groups of cells waiting since it hatched build wings, legs, eyes and antennae from it. Who acts: most, cells, caterpillar, groups. A sentence of the lesson «Life cycles and metamorphosis: frog, butterfly, ladybird» of the biol
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# Life cycles and metamorphosis: frog, butterfly, ladybird, sentence 9

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Inside the chrysalis most of the caterpillar breaks down into a soup, and groups of cells waiting since it hatched build wings, legs, eyes and antennae from it.

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**Who acts:** most, cells, caterpillar, groups · **What happens:** break down, wait, hatch, build · **To what, where:** chrysalis, wings

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Life cycles and metamorphosis: frog, butterfly, ladybird» 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 (most, cells, caterpillar, groups), 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:9
# text = Inside the chrysalis most of the caterpillar breaks down into a soup, and groups of cells waiting since it hatched build wings, legs, eyes and antennae from it.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	chrysalis	chrysalis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det
7	caterpillar	caterpillar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	breaks	break	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	down	down	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
15	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
19	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	hatched	hatch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
22	build	build	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
23	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	antennae	antenna	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## 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 | **break down** | present | most of the caterpillar |  |  | the chrysalis |  | into a soup *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into soup=Result |
| 2 | **wait** | gerund | cells *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hatch** | past | caterpillar |  |  |  |  |  | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **build** | present | groups of cells | wings and legs and eyes and antennae |  |  |  | from caterpillar | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset wing=Product from it=Material |

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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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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.

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