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title: Camouflage means looking like your surroundings so that hunters, or… — Masters of camouflage · tree and pragmatics
description: Camouflage means looking like your surroundings so that hunters, or the animals you hunt, do not notice you, like a child in a green jumper hiding in a hedge during hide-and-seek. Who acts: Camouflage, you, hunters, child. A sentence of the lesson «Masters of camouflage» of the biology course of Mov
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# Masters of camouflage, sentence 0

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Camouflage means looking like your surroundings so that hunters, or the animals you hunt, do not notice you, like a child in a green jumper hiding in a hedge during hide-and-seek.

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**Who acts:** Camouflage, you, hunters, child · **What happens:** mean, look, hunt, not notice, hide · **To what, where:** animals, you, hedge

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Masters of camouflage» 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 (Camouflage, you, hunters, child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:189-masters-of-camouflage.lesson:0
# text = Camouflage means looking like your surroundings so that hunters, or the animals you hunt, do not notice you, like a child in a green jumper hiding in a hedge during hide-and-seek.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 189-masters-of-camouflage.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Camouflage	camouflage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	surroundings	surroundings	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	3	obl	_	_
7	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	hunt	hunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:VB:VerbForm=Inf
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	notice	notice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	jumper	jumper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
29	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	hedge	hedge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	during	during	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
34	hide	hide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	_
38	seek	seek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Camouflage |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **look** *not said to happen* | gerund | Camouflage *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like your surroundings | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **hunt** | present | you | the animals *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **notice** | present · do-support | hunters or the animals | you |  |  |  | like a child in a green jumper | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
| 5 | **hide** | gerund | a child in a green jumper *not said here* |  |  | a hedge | during hide seek |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hedge=Location |

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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:189-masters-of-camouflage.lesson:0`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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