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title: A blue morpho flashes bright blue, then vanishes into brown when it… — The butterfly house · tree and pragmatics
description: A blue morpho flashes bright blue, then vanishes into brown when it closes its wings; another butterfly stares at you with a big fake eye; a glasswing is almost invisible against the leaves. Who acts: blue morpho, morpho, butterfly, glasswing. A sentence of the lesson «The butterfly house» of the bi
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# The butterfly house, sentence 1

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A blue morpho flashes bright blue, then vanishes into brown when it closes its wings; another butterfly stares at you with a big fake eye; a glasswing is almost invisible against the leaves.

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**Who acts:** blue morpho, morpho, butterfly, glasswing · **What happens:** flash, vanish, close, stare, be · **To what, where:** brown, wings

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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 (blue morpho, morpho, butterfly, glasswing), 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:1
# text = A blue morpho flashes bright blue, then vanishes into brown when it closes its wings; another butterfly stares at you with a big fake eye; a glasswing is almost invisible against the leaves.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	morpho	morpho	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	flashes	flash	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
9	vanishes	vanish	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	brown	brown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	14	mark	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	closes	close	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	stares	stare	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	fake	fake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	glasswing	glasswing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
34	against	against	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flash** | present | a blue morpho |  |  |  |  | blue *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **vanish** | present | a blue morpho *not said here* |  |  | brown | then |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **close** | present | morpho | morpho's wings |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient |
| 4 | **stare** | present | another butterfly |  |  |  |  | at you; with a big fake eye | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at you=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | present | a glasswing |  |  |  |  | against the leaves; almost, invisible *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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:1`.

**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/).

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