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title: Mantises can turn their heads about 180 degrees to follow prey witho… — Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and monkeys · tree and pragmatics
description: Mantises can turn their heads about 180 degrees to follow prey without moving their bodies, and scientists put tiny 3D glasses on them to show they judge distance with two eyes. Who acts: Mantises, scientists. A sentence of the lesson «Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and monkeys» of the biology
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# Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and monkeys, sentence 6

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Mantises can turn their heads about 180 degrees to follow prey without moving their bodies, and scientists put tiny 3D glasses on them to show they judge distance with two eyes.

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**Who acts:** Mantises, scientists · **What happens:** turn, follow, move, put, show, judge · **To what, where:** heads, prey, bodies, tiny 3D glasses, distance · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Mantises, scientists), 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:6
# text = Mantises can turn their heads about 180 degrees to follow prey without moving their bodies, and scientists put tiny 3D glasses on them to show they judge distance with two eyes.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Mantises	mantis	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	180	180	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
11	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	3D	3d	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi
22	glasses	glass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	judge	judge	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	ccomp	_	_
29	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **turn** | can | Mantises | styles's heads |  |  |  | 180 degrees *obl:unmarked* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
| 2 | **follow** | to-infinitive | Mantises *not said here* | prey |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=Theme |
| 3 | **move** | gerund | Mantises *not said here* | styles's bodies |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent body=Theme |
| 4 | **put** | past | scientists | tiny 3D glasses |  |  |  | on styles *= style* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent glass=Theme on they=Destination |
| 5 | **show** | to-infinitive | scientists *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **judge** | present | scientists *= scientist* | distance |  |  |  | with two eyes | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent distance=Value |

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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, 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.

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