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title: Butterfly houses are kept warm and humid; butterflies need a body te… — The butterfly house · tree and pragmatics
description: Butterfly houses are kept warm and humid; butterflies need a body temperature of about 30 degrees to fly well, so they bask in the sun. Who acts: butterflies. 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 
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# The butterfly house, sentence 5

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Butterfly houses are kept warm and humid; butterflies need a body temperature of about 30 degrees to fly well, so they bask in the sun.

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**Who acts:** butterflies · **What happens:** keep, need, fly, bask · **To what, where:** Butterfly houses, body temperature, sun.

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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), 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:5
# text = Butterfly houses are kept warm and humid; butterflies need a body temperature of about 30 degrees to fly well, so they bask in the sun.
# 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	humid	humid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	temperature	temperature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	about	about	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:acl
20	well	well	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	bask	bask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	sun.	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present · passive |  | Butterfly houses |  |  |  | warm *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **need** | present | butterflies | a body temperature of 30 degrees |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot temperature=Theme |
| 3 | **fly** | to-infinitive | butterflies *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **bask** | present | butterflies *= butterfly* |  |  | the sun. |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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.

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**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:5`.

**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 ×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/).

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