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title: The glasswing butterfly has clear patches on its wings with few scal… — The butterfly house · tree and pragmatics
description: The glasswing butterfly has clear patches on its wings with few scales, which makes it hard to see against leaves and flowers. Who acts: glasswing butterfly. A sentence of the lesson «The butterfly house» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The butterfly house, sentence 12

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The glasswing butterfly has clear patches on its wings with few scales, which makes it hard to see against leaves and flowers.

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**Who acts:** glasswing butterfly · **What happens:** have, make, see · **To what, where:** clear patches, 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 (glasswing butterfly), 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:12
# text = The glasswing butterfly has clear patches on its wings with few scales, which makes it hard to see against leaves and flowers.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	glasswing	glasswing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	patches	patch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	scales	scale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
17	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	against	against	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
24	.	.	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 | **have** | present | the glasswing butterfly | clear patches |  | fat's wings with few scales |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patch=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | present |  |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | against leaves and flowers | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:12`.

**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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