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title: Many mantises are camouflaged as leaves, sticks, bark or flowers, an… — Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and monkeys · tree and pragmatics
description: Many mantises are camouflaged as leaves, sticks, bark or flowers, and the orchid mantis looks so like a pink and white flower that insects fly to it. Who acts: orchid mantis, insects. A sentence of the lesson «Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and monkeys» of the biology course of Mova's primary 
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# Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and monkeys, sentence 7

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Many mantises are camouflaged as leaves, sticks, bark or flowers, and the orchid mantis looks so like a pink and white flower that insects fly to it.

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**Who acts:** orchid mantis, insects · **What happens:** camouflage, look, fly · **To what, where:** Many mantises, flower, mantis

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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 (orchid mantis, insects), 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:7
# text = Many mantises are camouflaged as leaves, sticks, bark or flowers, and the orchid mantis looks so like a pink and white flower that insects fly to it.
# 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 ×2
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	mantises	mantis	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	camouflaged	camouflage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	orchid	orchid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	mantis	mantis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:det
22	pink	pink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:amod
25	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	obl	_	_
27	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	fly	fly	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **camouflage** | present · passive |  | Many mantises |  |  |  | as leaves and sticks and bark or flowers | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
| 2 | **look** | present | the orchid mantis |  |  |  |  | like pink and a flower | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **fly** | present | insects | a flower |  | mantis |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to it=Destination |

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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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**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:7`.

**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 ×2. **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/).

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