--- title: A caterpillar eats and eats, growing many times bigger, then inside… — Life cycles · tree and pragmatics description: A caterpillar eats and eats, growing many times bigger, then inside the chrysalis its body is rebuilt into a butterfly with wings. Who acts: caterpillar. 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 clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/25-life-cycles/4/) [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/) / 4 # Life cycles, sentence 4 A caterpillar eats and eats, growing many times bigger, then inside the chrysalis its body is rebuilt into a butterfly with wings. **Who acts:** caterpillar · **What happens:** eat, grow, rebuild · **To what, where:** body, chrysalis 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 (caterpillar), 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:4 # text = A caterpillar eats and eats, growing many times bigger, then inside the chrysalis its body is rebuilt into a butterfly with wings. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det 2 caterpillar caterpillar NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 5 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 growing grow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 8 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl:unmarked _ _ 10 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 xcomp _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 15 advmod _ _ 13 inside inside ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 chrysalis chrysalis NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nsubj:pass 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 rebuilt rebuild VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 20 into into ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 butterfly butterfly NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | present | a caterpillar | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **eat** | present | a caterpillar *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **grow** | gerund | a caterpillar *not said here* | | | | | big *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **rebuild** | present · passive | | plant's body | | the chrysalis | | into a butterfly with wings | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | 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:4`. **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 ×2, 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: [Life cycles, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/25-life-cycles/3/) - next →: [Life cycles, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/25-life-cycles/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/25-life-cycles/)