--- title: A butterfly has four very different stages: egg, caterpillar (larva)… — Life cycles · tree and pragmatics description: A butterfly has four very different stages: egg, caterpillar (larva), chrysalis (pupa) and adult; this big change is called metamorphosis. Who acts: butterfly. A sentence of the lesson «Life cycles» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/25-life-cycles/2/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Life cycles](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/25-life-cycles/) / 2 # Life cycles, sentence 2 A butterfly has four very different stages: egg, caterpillar (larva), chrysalis (pupa) and adult; this big change is called metamorphosis. **Who acts:** butterfly · **What happens:** have, call · **To what, where:** four different stages, big change · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Life cycles» of the world 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 (butterfly), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:025-life-cycles.lesson:2 # text = A butterfly has four very different stages: egg, caterpillar (larva), chrysalis (pupa) and adult; this big change is called metamorphosis. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 025-life-cycles.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): R7-rel-agree ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 butterfly butterfly NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 5 very very ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 stages stage NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 9 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 caterpillar caterpillar NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:appos 12 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 13 larva larva NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 14 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 chrysalis chrysalis NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 17 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 18 pupa pupa NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 appos _ _ 19 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 det _ _ 24 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 change change NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 28 metamorphosis metamorphosis NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 xcomp _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | a butterfly | four different stages | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stage=Patient | | 2 | **call** | present · passive | | this big change | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | 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:world:025-life-cycles.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): R7-rel-agree ×3. **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: [Life cycles, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/25-life-cycles/1/) - next →: [Life cycles, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/25-life-cycles/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/25-life-cycles/)