--- title: Millions of monarch butterflies fly up to about 4000 km to the same… — Migration: the great journeys · tree and pragmatics description: Millions of monarch butterflies fly up to about 4000 km to the same mountain forests in Mexico; the trip north takes several generations, so no single butterfly makes the whole round trip, and the route must be inborn. Who acts: Millions, trip north, single butterfly, route. 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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 (Millions, trip north, single butterfly, route), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:054-migration-the-great-journeys.lesson:9 # text = Millions of monarch butterflies fly up to about 4000 km to the same mountain forests in Mexico; the trip north takes several generations, so no single butterfly makes the whole round trip, and the route must be inborn. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 054-migration-the-great-journeys.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 Millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 monarch monarch NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 butterflies butterfly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 5 fly fly VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 about about ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 4000 4000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 km km NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 11 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 forests forest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Mexico Mexico PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 trip trip NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 north north NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 23 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 generations generation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 27 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 29 det _ _ 28 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 butterfly butterfly NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 32 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 33 round round NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 trip trip NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 route route NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 39 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 40 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 41 cop _ _ 41 inborn inborn ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 conj _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **fly up** | present | Millions of monarch butterflies | | | | | to 4000 km *result*; to the same mountain forests in Mexico | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to km=Result | | 2 | **take** | present | the trip north | several generations | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent generation=Theme | | 3 | **make** | present | no single butterfly | the whole round trip | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trip=Product | | 4 | **is** | must | the route | | | | | inborn *property* | tree rules | 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:054-migration-the-great-journeys.lesson:9`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Migration: the great journeys, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/54-migration-the-great-journeys/8/) - next →: [Migration: the great journeys, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/54-migration-the-great-journeys/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/54-migration-the-great-journeys/)