--- title: Many tropical butterflies drink from rotting fruit and mud puddles t… — The butterfly house · tree and pragmatics description: Many tropical butterflies drink from rotting fruit and mud puddles to get sugar and salts, and in the Amazon some even drink turtles' tears. Who acts: Many tropical butterflies, some. A sentence of the lesson «The butterfly house» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr --- [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/16/) [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/) / 16 # The butterfly house, sentence 16 Many tropical butterflies drink from rotting fruit and mud puddles to get sugar and salts, and in the Amazon some even drink turtles' tears. **Who acts:** Many tropical butterflies, some · **What happens:** drink, get · **To what, where:** rotting fruit puddles, sugar, tears, Amazon 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 tropical butterflies, some), 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:16 # text = Many tropical butterflies drink from rotting fruit and mud puddles to get sugar and salts, and in the Amazon some even drink turtles' tears. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 tropical tropical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 butterflies butterfly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 drink drink VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 6 rotting rot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 7 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc 9 mud mud NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 10 puddles puddle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 13 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=13:cc 15 salts salt NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Amazon Amazon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 21 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 23 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:conj 22 even even ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 drink drink VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 24 turtles turtle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 ' 's PART POS _ 24 case _ _ 26 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drink** | present | Many tropical butterflies | | | rotting fruit puddles | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from puddle=Source | | 2 | **get** | to-infinitive | Many tropical butterflies *not said here* | sugar and salts | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sugar=Stimulus | | 3 | **drink** | present | some | turtles's tears | | the Amazon | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tear=Patient | 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:16`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [The butterfly house, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/98-the-butterfly-house/15/) - next →: [The butterfly house, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/98-the-butterfly-house/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/98-the-butterfly-house/)