--- title: Butterflies are insects with six legs and four wings, but in many ki… — The butterfly house · tree and pragmatics description: Butterflies are insects with six legs and four wings, but in many kinds, like monarchs and peacocks, the front pair of legs is tiny, so they seem to stand on four. Who acts: Butterflies, front pair. A sentence of the lesson «The butterfly house» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with it --- [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/17/) [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/) / 17 # The butterfly house, sentence 17 Butterflies are insects with six legs and four wings, but in many kinds, like monarchs and peacocks, the front pair of legs is tiny, so they seem to stand on four. **Who acts:** Butterflies, front pair · **What happens:** be, seem, stand · **To what, where:** insects, four 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 (Butterflies, front pair), 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:17 # text = Butterflies are insects with six legs and four wings, but in many kinds, like monarchs and peacocks, the front pair of legs is tiny, so they seem to stand on four. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Butterflies butterfly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 like like ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 monarchs monarch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 peacocks peacock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 pair pair NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 30 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 seem seem VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:conj 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 on on ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 obl _ _ 36 . . 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 | **is a** | present | Butterflies | insects | | | | with six legs and four wings but many kinds like monarchs and peacocks | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | the front pair of legs | | | | | tiny *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **seem** | present | butterflies *= butterfly* | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 4 | **stand** | to-infinitive | butterflies *= butterfly* *not said here* | | | four | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on four=Location | 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:17`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [The butterfly house, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/98-the-butterfly-house/16/) - next →: [The penguin pool, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/99-the-penguin-pool/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/98-the-butterfly-house/)