--- title: Praying mantises wait very still, then shoot out spiky front legs th… — Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and monkeys · tree and pragmatics description: Praying mantises wait very still, then shoot out spiky front legs that fold like a pocket knife to grab insects in a fraction of a second; a mantis has six legs and walks on the back four. Who acts: Praying mantises, spiky front legs, mantis. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Praying mantises, spiky front legs, 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:4 # text = Praying mantises wait very still, then shoot out spiky front legs that fold like a pocket knife to grab insects in a fraction of a second; a mantis has six legs and walks on the back four. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Praying pray VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 amod _ _ 2 mantises mantis NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 wait wait VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 very very ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 still still ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 8 advmod _ _ 8 shoot shoot VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 out out ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 10 spiky spiky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 fold fold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 like like ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 pocket pocket NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 knife knife NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 grab grab VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advcl 21 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 fraction fraction NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 24 nmod _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 mantis mantis NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 32 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 walks walk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 36 on on ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 flat _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | 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 | Praying mantises | | | | still | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **shoot out** | infinitive | | spiky front legs | | | then | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Theme | | 4 | **fold** | present | spiky front legs | | | | | like a pocket knife | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **grab** | to-infinitive | spiky front legs *not said here* | insects | | a fraction of a second | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Theme | | 6 | **have** | present | a mantis | six legs | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | | 7 | **walk** | present | a mantis *not said here* | | | the back | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory | 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. 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