--- title: Monarch butterflies fly thousands of kilometres from Canada and the… — The butterfly house · tree and pragmatics description: Monarch butterflies fly thousands of kilometres from Canada and the USA to mountains in Mexico for winter, and it takes several generations to fly north again. Who acts: Monarch butterflies, it. A sentence of the lesson «The butterfly house» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its de --- [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/13/) [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/) / 13 # The butterfly house, sentence 13 Monarch butterflies fly thousands of kilometres from Canada and the USA to mountains in Mexico for winter, and it takes several generations to fly north again. **Who acts:** Monarch butterflies, it · **What happens:** fly, take · **To what, where:** thousands, Canada, several generations 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 (Monarch butterflies, it), 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:13 # text = Monarch butterflies fly thousands of kilometres from Canada and the USA to mountains in Mexico for winter, and it takes several generations to fly north again. # 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 ×4 1 Monarch monarch NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 butterflies butterfly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 fly fly VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 USA USA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Mexico Mexico PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 22 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 generations generation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 acl _ _ 26 north north ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:advmod 27 again again ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fly** | present | Monarch butterflies | thousands of kilometres | | Canada and the USA | winter | to mountains in Mexico | vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent thousand=Theme from canada=Initial\_Location to mountain=Destination | | 2 | **take** | present | it | several generations | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent generation=Theme | | 3 | **fly** | to-infinitive | | several generations *not said here* | | | again | north *property* | 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:13`. **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 ×4. **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, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/98-the-butterfly-house/12/) - next →: [The butterfly house, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/98-the-butterfly-house/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/98-the-butterfly-house/)