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title: Many caterpillars eat only one or a few kinds of plant, so gardens w… — The butterfly house · tree and pragmatics
description: Many caterpillars eat only one or a few kinds of plant, so gardens with the right plants help; nettles help red admiral and peacock butterflies in Britain. Who acts: Many caterpillars, gardens, nettles. A sentence of the lesson «The butterfly house» of the biology course of Mova's primary school wit
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# The butterfly house, sentence 15

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Many caterpillars eat only one or a few kinds of plant, so gardens with the right plants help; nettles help red admiral and peacock butterflies in Britain.

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**Who acts:** Many caterpillars, gardens, nettles · **What happens:** eat, help · **To what, where:** one, red admiral, Britain

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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 (Many caterpillars, gardens, nettles), 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:15
# text = Many caterpillars eat only one or a few kinds of plant, so gardens with the right plants help; nettles help red admiral and peacock butterflies in Britain.
# 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 ×2
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	caterpillars	caterpillar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:det
8	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
14	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
19	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=19:punct
21	nettles	nettle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
23	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	admiral	admiral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	peacock	peacock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## 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 | **eat** | present | Many caterpillars | one or few kinds of plant |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **help** | present | gardens with the right plants |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **help** | present | nettles | red admiral and peacock butterflies |  | Britain |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent admiral=Beneficiary |

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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:15`.

**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 ×2. **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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