--- title: Many mantises have a single ear in the middle of their chest that he… — Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and monkeys · tree and pragmatics description: Many mantises have a single ear in the middle of their chest that hears hunting bats, so they dive or spiral away, though with one ear they cannot tell which side the bat is on. Who acts: Many mantises, single ear, flowers, bat. 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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 (Many mantises, single ear, flowers, bat), 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:8 # text = Many mantises have a single ear in the middle of their chest that hears hunting bats, so they dive or spiral away, though with one ear they cannot tell which side the bat is on. # 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 3 nsubj _ _ 3 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 chest chest NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 hears hear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:acl:relcl 15 hunting hunt VERB VBG VerbForm=Part 16 amod _ _ 16 bats bat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 dive dive VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 spiral spiral VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 23 away away ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advmod 24 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 25 though though SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 30 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 33 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 34 det _ _ 34 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 bat bat NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 37 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 38 on on ADV RB _ 34 acl:relcl _ _ 39 . . 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 | **have** | present | Many mantises | a single ear | | the middle of flowers's chest | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient | | 2 | **hear** | present | a single ear | hunting bats | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bat=Stimulus | | 3 | **hunt** | gerund | | | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **dive** | present | flowers *= flower* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **spiral away** | present | flowers *= flower* *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | can | flowers *= flower* | which side | | | | with one ear | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent side=Recipient | | 7 | **is** | present | the bat | which side *not said here* | | | | on *property* | tree rules | 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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