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title: Woodlice live in dark, damp places because they are crustaceans, cou… — What a habitat is: home, food, shelter and fitti… · tree and pragmatics
description: Woodlice live in dark, damp places because they are crustaceans, cousins of crabs, with 14 legs (insects such as beetles have 6) and gill-like breathing parts that must stay moist, so dry sunny air can kill them within hours. Who acts: Woodlice, insects, gill breathing parts, dry sunny air. A senten
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# What a habitat is: home, food, shelter and fitting in, sentence 6

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Woodlice live in dark, damp places because they are crustaceans, cousins of crabs, with 14 legs (insects such as beetles have 6) and gill-like breathing parts that must stay moist, so dry sunny air can kill them within hours.

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**Who acts:** Woodlice, insects, gill breathing parts, dry sunny air · **What happens:** live, be, have, breathe, stay, kill · **To what, where:** dark damp places, crustaceans, 6, Woodlice

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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 (Woodlice, insects, gill breathing parts, dry sunny air), 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:6
# text = Woodlice live in dark, damp places because they are crustaceans, cousins of crabs, with 14 legs (insects such as beetles have 6) and gill-like breathing parts that must stay moist, so dry sunny air can kill them within hours.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Woodlice	woodlice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	damp	damp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	crustaceans	crustacean	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	advcl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	cousins	cousin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	crabs	crab	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	14	14	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
21	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	appos	_	_
22	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	24	case	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	fixed	_	_
24	beetles	beetle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:nsubj
25	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl	_	_
26	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	obj	_	_
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	gill	gill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	_
31	like	like	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
32	breathing	breathe	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	amod	_	_
33	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
34	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
35	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	acl:relcl	_	_
37	moist	moist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	xcomp	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
39	so	so	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
40	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
41	sunny	sunny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
43	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
45	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obj	_	_
46	within	within	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obl	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | Woodlice |  |  | dark damp places |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Woodlice | crustaceans and cousins of crabs and 14 legs and gill breathing parts |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | insects such beetles *not said here* | 6 |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 6=Patient |
| 4 | **breathe** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **stay** | must | gill breathing parts |  |  |  |  | moist *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **kill** | can | dry sunny air | Woodlice |  |  | hour |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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.

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**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, 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.

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