--- title: A real praying mantis waits as still as a twig, then its spiky front… — Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and monkeys · tree and pragmatics description: A real praying mantis waits as still as a twig, then its spiky front legs snap shut on a fly faster than you can blink; it can even turn its head and look you in the eye. Who acts: real praying mantis, spiky front legs, you, mantis. A sentence of the lesson «Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/137-kung-fu-panda-real-mantises-snakes-and-monkeys/1/) [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/) / [Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/137-kung-fu-panda-real-mantises-snakes-and-monkeys/) / 1 # Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and monkeys, sentence 1 A real praying mantis waits as still as a twig, then its spiky front legs snap shut on a fly faster than you can blink; it can even turn its head and look you in the eye. **Who acts:** real praying mantis, spiky front legs, you, mantis · **What happens:** pray, wait, snap, blink, turn, look · **To what, where:** head, you, eye This is a sentence of the lesson «Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and monkeys» 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 (real praying mantis, spiky front legs, you, mantis), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:137-kung-fu-panda-real-mantises-snakes-and-monkeys.lesson:1 # text = A real praying mantis waits as still as a twig, then its spiky front legs snap shut on a fly faster than you can blink; it can even turn its head and look you in the eye. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 137-kung-fu-panda-real-mantises-snakes-and-monkeys.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 praying pray VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 mantis mantis NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 waits wait VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 as as ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 still still ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advmod 8 as as ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 twig twig NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:nmod 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 12 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 17 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advmod 13 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 14 spiky spiky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 snap snap VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 18 shut shut ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 fly fly NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 faster fast ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 21 amod _ _ 23 than than SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 blink blink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 29 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 even even ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 32 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ _ 36 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pray** | gerund | | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 2 | **wait** | present | a real praying mantis | | | | still | as a twig | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **snap** | present | mantis's spiky front legs | | | | then | on a fly; shut *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on fly=Location | | 4 | **blink** | can | you | | | | | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **turn** | can | mantis | mantis's head | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme head=Result | | 6 | **look** | infinitive | mantis *not said here* | you | | the eye | | | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme you=Attribute | 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:137-kung-fu-panda-real-mantises-snakes-and-monkeys.lesson:1`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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: [Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes a…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/137-kung-fu-panda-real-mantises-snakes-and-monkeys/0/) - next →: [Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes a…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/137-kung-fu-panda-real-mantises-snakes-and-monkeys/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/137-kung-fu-panda-real-mantises-snakes-and-monkeys/)