--- title: Real life: a butterfly weighs less than a gram, so its stamp really… — Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, par… · tree and pragmatics description: Real life: a butterfly weighs less than a gram, so its stamp really could not bend a blade of grass; butterflies even taste with their feet, which have taste sensors on them. Who acts: butterfly, stamp, butterflies, feet. 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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 (butterfly, stamp, butterflies, feet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:096-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast.lesson:31 # text = Real life: a butterfly weighs less than a gram, so its stamp really could not bend a blade of grass; butterflies even taste with their feet, which have taste sensors on them. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 096-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 dislocated _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 butterfly butterfly NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:compound 6 weighs weigh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 parataxis _ _ 7 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 10 advmod _ _ 8 than than ADP IN _ 7 fixed _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 gram gram NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 13 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 stamp stamp NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 15 really really ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 16 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 bend bend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 blade blade NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 24 butterflies butterfly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 25 even even ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 taste taste VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 32 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 33 taste taste NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 sensors sensor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 35 on on ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **weigh** | present | a butterfly | a gram | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme gram=Value | | 2 | **not** **bend** | could | Butterfly's stamp | a blade of grass | | | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent blade=Material | | 3 | **taste** | infinitive | butterflies | | | | | with Queens's feet; Real life *dislocated* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **have** | present | Queens's feet | taste sensors | | | | on Queens *= queen* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sensor=Patient | 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:books:096-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast.lesson:31`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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: [Just So Stories, The Butterfly that St…, 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/96-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast/30/) - next →: [Just So Stories, The Butterfly that St…, 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/96-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast/32/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/96-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast/)