--- title: In The Very Hungry Caterpillar the caterpillar eats cake and sausage… — The butterfly house · tree and pragmatics description: In The Very Hungry Caterpillar the caterpillar eats cake and sausage and builds a cocoon, but real caterpillars eat only their own food plants, and butterflies make a chrysalis. Who acts: caterpillar, real caterpillars, butterflies. A sentence of the lesson «The butterfly house» of the biology cours --- [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/4/) [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/) / 4 # The butterfly house, sentence 4 In The Very Hungry Caterpillar the caterpillar eats cake and sausage and builds a cocoon, but real caterpillars eat only their own food plants, and butterflies make a chrysalis. **Who acts:** caterpillar, real caterpillars, butterflies · **What happens:** eat, build, make · **To what, where:** cake, cocoon, own food plants, chrysalis 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 (caterpillar, real caterpillars, butterflies), 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:4 # text = In The Very Hungry Caterpillar the caterpillar eats cake and sausage and builds a cocoon, but real caterpillars eat only their own food plants, and butterflies make a chrysalis. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 Very very ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 Hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 Caterpillar caterpillar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 caterpillar caterpillar NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 cake cake NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 sausage sausage NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 builds build VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 cocoon cocoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 caterpillars caterpillar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 21 only only ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advmod 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 23 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 24 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 butterflies butterfly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 chrysalis chrysalis NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 . . 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 | **eat** | present | the caterpillar | cake and sausage | | | | in the Hungry Caterpillar | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient | | 2 | **build** | present | the caterpillar *not said here* | a cocoon | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cocoon=Product | | 3 | **eat** | present | real caterpillars | cake's own food plants | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient | | 4 | **make** | present | butterflies | a chrysalis | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chrysalis=Product | 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:4`. **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, 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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/98-the-butterfly-house/3/) - next →: [The butterfly house, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/98-the-butterfly-house/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/98-the-butterfly-house/)