--- title: Stick insects hide from birds by looking like twigs and even swaying… — What a habitat is: home, food, shelter and fitti… · tree and pragmatics description: Stick insects hide from birds by looking like twigs and even swaying like a twig in the breeze; one from China measured about 64 cm with its legs stretched out. Who acts: Stick insects, one. A sentence of the lesson «What a habitat is: home, food, shelter and fitting in» of the biology course of Mov --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/1-what-a-habitat-is/14/) [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/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [What a habitat is: home, food, shelter…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/1-what-a-habitat-is/) / 14 # What a habitat is: home, food, shelter and fitting in, sentence 14 Stick insects hide from birds by looking like twigs and even swaying like a twig in the breeze; one from China measured about 64 cm with its legs stretched out. **Who acts:** Stick insects, one · **What happens:** hide, look, sway, measure, stretch out · **To what, where:** 64 cm, legs This is a sentence of the lesson «What a habitat is: home, food, shelter and fitting in» of the biology 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 (Stick insects, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:001-what-a-habitat-is.lesson:14 # text = Stick insects hide from birds by looking like twigs and even swaying like a twig in the breeze; one from China measured about 64 cm with its legs stretched out. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 001-what-a-habitat-is.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): R5-strong ×1 1 Stick stick NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 hide hide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 6 by by SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 8 like like ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 twigs twig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 even even ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 swaying sway VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 13 like like ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 twig twig NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 breeze breeze NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obl 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nsubj _ _ 21 from from ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 23 measured measure VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 24 about about ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 64 64 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 cm cm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 27 with with SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 stretched stretch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 advcl _ _ 31 out out ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 32 . . 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 | **hide** | present | Stick insects | | | | | from birds | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from bird=Beneficiary | | 2 | **look** | gerund | Stick insects *not said here* | | | | | like twigs | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **sway** | gerund | Stick insects *not said here* | | | | | like a twig in the breeze | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **measure** | past | one from China | 64 cm | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme cm=Value | | 5 | **stretch out** | participle · passive | | breeze's legs | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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:biology:001-what-a-habitat-is.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): R5-strong ×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: [What a habitat is: home, food, shelter…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/1-what-a-habitat-is/13/) - next →: [What a habitat is: home, food, shelter…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/1-what-a-habitat-is/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/1-what-a-habitat-is/)