--- title: If one lands on your sleeve, let it be, because its wings are covere… — The butterfly house · tree and pragmatics description: If one lands on your sleeve, let it be, because its wings are covered in tiny scales like dust that rub off easily. Who acts: one, you, sleeve, tiny scales. A sentence of the lesson «The butterfly house» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev --- [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/3/) [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/) / 3 # The butterfly house, sentence 3 If one lands on your sleeve, let it be, because its wings are covered in tiny scales like dust that rub off easily. **Who acts:** one, you, sleeve, tiny scales · **What happens:** land, let, be, cover, rub off · **To what, where:** sleeve, wings 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 (one, you, sleeve, tiny scales), 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:3 # text = If one lands on your sleeve, let it be, because its wings are covered in tiny scales like dust that rub off easily. # 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 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 one one PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 nsubj _ _ 3 lands land VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 sleeve sleeve NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 because because SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 13 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advcl 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 scales scale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 20 like like ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 22 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 rub rub VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 24 off off ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 easily easily ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **land** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | one | | | your sleeve | | | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on sleeve=Destination | | 2 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | sleeve | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | infinitive | sleeve *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **cover** | present · passive | | sleeve's wings | | | | in tiny scales like dust | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in scale=Theme | | 5 | **rub off** | present | tiny scales like dust | | | | | easily *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: 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:3`. **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. **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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/98-the-butterfly-house/2/) - next →: [The butterfly house, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/98-the-butterfly-house/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/98-the-butterfly-house/)