--- title: The butterfly house is warm and damp like a rainforest, because butt… — The butterfly house · tree and pragmatics description: The butterfly house is warm and damp like a rainforest, because butterflies are cold-blooded and the tropical kinds need warmth to fly. Who acts: butterfly house, butterflies, tropical kinds. A sentence of the lesson «The butterfly house» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/98-the-butterfly-house/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The butterfly house](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/98-the-butterfly-house/) / 0 # The butterfly house, sentence 0 The butterfly house is warm and damp like a rainforest, because butterflies are cold-blooded and the tropical kinds need warmth to fly. **Who acts:** butterfly house, butterflies, tropical kinds · **What happens:** be, need, fly · **To what, where:** warmth This is a sentence of the lesson «The butterfly house» 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 (butterfly house, butterflies, tropical kinds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:098-the-butterfly-house.lesson:0 # text = The butterfly house is warm and damp like a rainforest, because butterflies are cold-blooded and the tropical kinds need warmth to fly. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 098-the-butterfly-house.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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 butterfly butterfly NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 damp damp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 8 like like ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 rainforest rainforest NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 because because SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 13 butterflies butterfly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 15 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ _ 17 blooded blooded ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 advcl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 tropical tropical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 23 warmth warmth NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:acl 26 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the butterfly house | | | | | warm *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | the butterfly house *not said here* | | | | | like a rainforest | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | butterflies | | | | | blooded *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **need** | present | the tropical kinds | warmth | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot warmth=Theme | | 5 | **fly** | to-infinitive | the tropical kinds *not said here* | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «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:098-the-butterfly-house.lesson:0`. **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: [The insect house: ants, stick insects,…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/97-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions/17/) - next →: [The butterfly house, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/98-the-butterfly-house/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/98-the-butterfly-house/)