--- title: Owl butterflies have large eye spots on the underside of their wings… — The butterfly house · tree and pragmatics description: Owl butterflies have large eye spots on the underside of their wings that may startle birds or draw their pecks away from the body. Who acts: Owl butterflies, large eye spots. A sentence of the lesson «The butterfly house» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and t --- [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/10/) [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/) / 10 # The butterfly house, sentence 10 Owl butterflies have large eye spots on the underside of their wings that may startle birds or draw their pecks away from the body. **Who acts:** Owl butterflies, large eye spots · **What happens:** have, startle, draw · **To what, where:** large eye spots, underside, birds, pecks 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 (Owl butterflies, large eye spots), 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:10 # text = Owl butterflies have large eye spots on the underside of their wings that may startle birds or draw their pecks away from the body. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Owl owl NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 2 butterflies butterfly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 spots spot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 underside underside NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 14 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 startle startle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:acl:relcl 16 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 draw draw VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 19 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 pecks peck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 away away ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 22 from from ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Owl butterflies | large eye spots | | the underside of butterflies's wings | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Patient | | 2 | **startle** | may | large eye spots | birds | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bird=Experiencer | | 3 | **draw** | infinitive | large eye spots *not said here* | butterflies's pecks | | | | away *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peck=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:10`. **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: [The butterfly house, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/98-the-butterfly-house/9/) - next →: [The butterfly house, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/98-the-butterfly-house/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/98-the-butterfly-house/)