--- title: Butterflies lose the tiny scales on their wings when touched, firefl… — Chickens, goats and little creatures · tree and pragmatics description: Butterflies lose the tiny scales on their wings when touched, fireflies and other insects die quickly in jars, and every little animal has a job in nature. Who acts: Butterflies, fireflies, little animal. 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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 (Butterflies, fireflies, little animal), 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:2 # text = Butterflies lose the tiny scales on their wings when touched, fireflies and other insects die quickly in jars, and every little animal has a job in nature. # 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, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Butterflies butterfly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 lose lose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 scales scale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 9 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 10 touched touch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:acl 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 12 fireflies firefly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=12:cc 14 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 16 die die VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 17 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 jars jar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 24 det _ _ 23 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 nature nature NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lose** | present | Butterflies | the tiny scales | | Butterflies's wings | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scale=Eventuality | | 2 | **touch** | participle | Butterflies *not said here* | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **die** | present | fireflies and other insects | | | | | in jars; quickly *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in jar=Attribute | | 4 | **have** | present | every little animal | a job | | nature | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=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:everyday:068-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures.lesson:2`. **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, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/68-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures/1/) - next →: [Chickens, goats and little creatures, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/68-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/68-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures/)