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title: The atlas moth is one of the biggest moths, as big as a plate; adult… — The butterfly house · tree and pragmatics
description: The atlas moth is one of the biggest moths, as big as a plate; adults have no mouth, do not eat and live only one or two weeks on fat stored as caterpillars. Who acts: atlas moth, adults. A sentence of the lesson «The butterfly house» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc
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# The butterfly house, sentence 11

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The atlas moth is one of the biggest moths, as big as a plate; adults have no mouth, do not eat and live only one or two weeks on fat stored as caterpillars.

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**Who acts:** atlas moth, adults · **What happens:** be, have, not eat, live, store · **To what, where:** one, mouth, fat

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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 (atlas moth, adults), 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:11
# text = The atlas moth is one of the biggest moths, as big as a plate; adults have no mouth, do not eat and live only one or two weeks on fat stored as caterpillars.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	atlas	atlas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	moth	moth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
9	moths	moth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=18:punct
22	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	live	live	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
27	only	only	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	conj	_	_
31	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	stored	store	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:acl
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	caterpillars	caterpillar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is a** | present | the atlas moth | one |  |  |  | of the biggest moths | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | adults | no mouth |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **eat** | present · do-support | adults *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **live** | infinitive | adults *not said here* |  |  |  | week |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **store** | participle |  | fat *not said here* |  |  |  | as caterpillars | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:11`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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/).

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