--- title: Butterflies cannot chew: they uncurl a long tube called a proboscis… — The butterfly house · tree and pragmatics description: Butterflies cannot chew: they uncurl a long tube called a proboscis to drink from orange slices and rotting bananas, and they taste with their feet when they land. Who acts: Butterflies, long tube. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Butterflies, long tube), 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:2 # text = Butterflies cannot chew: they uncurl a long tube called a proboscis to drink from orange slices and rotting bananas, and they taste with their feet when they land. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Butterflies butterfly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 chew chew VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 uncurl uncurl VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 tube tube NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 proboscis proboscis NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 acl _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 orange orange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 slices slice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 rotting rot VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 amod _ _ 21 bananas banana NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 taste taste VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advcl 26 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 29 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 31 advmod _ _ 30 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 land land VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:conj 32 . . 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 | **not** **chew** | can | Butterflies | | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **uncurl** | present | butterflies *= butterfly* | a long tube | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **call** | participle | a long tube *not said here* | a proboscis | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent proboscis=Recipient | | 4 | **drink** | to-infinitive | a long tube *not said here* | a proboscis *not said here* | | orange slices and rotting bananas | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from slice=Source | | 5 | **rot** | gerund | | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **taste** | present | butterflies *= butterfly* | | | | | with butterflies's feet | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **land** | present | butterflies *= butterfly* | | | | | | vn pocket-9.10-1 «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:2`. **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 ×1, 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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/98-the-butterfly-house/1/) - next →: [The butterfly house, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/98-the-butterfly-house/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/98-the-butterfly-house/)