--- title: The monarchs' journey north takes several generations, so the butter… — Animals of North America and Britain: moose, bal… · tree and pragmatics description: The monarchs' journey north takes several generations, so the butterflies returning to Mexico are the great-great-grandchildren of those that left. Who acts: journey north, butterflies, monarchs. 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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 (journey north, butterflies, monarchs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:080-animals-of-north-america-and-britain.lesson:16 # text = The monarchs' journey north takes several generations, so the butterflies returning to Mexico are the great-great-grandchildren of those that left. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 080-animals-of-north-america-and-britain.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 monarchs monarch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 ' 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 north north NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 generations generation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 butterflies butterfly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 13 returning return VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 acl _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Mexico Mexico PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 18 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ _ 20 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ _ 22 grandchildren grandchild NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 22 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:nmod|HaikuPos=DET:DT:Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 25 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | present | journey north | several generations | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent generation=Theme | | 2 | **return** | gerund | the butterflies *not said here* | | Mexico | | | | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to mexico=Result | | 3 | **is a** | present | the butterflies | the great great grandchildren | | | | of those | tree rules | | 4 | **leave** | past | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **journey** | | the monarchs | | | | | | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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. 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