--- title: Insects die quickly in jars, so a bug is kept only for a short time… — Chickens, goats and little creatures · tree and pragmatics description: Insects die quickly in jars, so a bug is kept only for a short time with air, leaves and damp, then released where it was found. Who acts: Insects. 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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 (Insects), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:068-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures.lesson:14 # text = Insects die quickly in jars, so a bug is kept only for a short time with air, leaves and damp, then released where it was found. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 068-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 die die VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 jars jar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 7 so so ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 bug bug NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:advcl 12 only only ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=20:cc 22 damp damp NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=20:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 23 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 24 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 25 advmod _ _ 25 released release VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 conj _ _ 26 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 29 advmod _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 advcl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **die** | present | Insects | | | | | in jars; quickly *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in jar=Attribute | | 2 | **keep** | present · passive | | a bug | | | time | with air and leaves and damp | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **release** | participle | | | | | then | | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer | | 4 | **find** | past · passive | | bug | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | 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:everyday:068-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures.lesson:14`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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: [Chickens, goats and little creatures, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/68-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures/12/) - next →: [Chickens, goats and little creatures, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/68-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/68-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures/)