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title: Stick insects look like twigs and sway like branches in the wind, an… — Masters of camouflage · tree and pragmatics
description: Stick insects look like twigs and sway like branches in the wind, and the longest insect in the world is a Chinese stick insect over sixty centimetres long. Who acts: Stick insects, longest insect. A sentence of the lesson «Masters of camouflage» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with i
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# Masters of camouflage, sentence 5

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Stick insects look like twigs and sway like branches in the wind, and the longest insect in the world is a Chinese stick insect over sixty centimetres long.

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**Who acts:** Stick insects, longest insect · **What happens:** look, be · **To what, where:** Chinese stick insect

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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 (Stick insects, longest insect), 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:5
# text = Stick insects look like twigs and sway like branches in the wind, and the longest insect in the world is a Chinese stick insect over sixty centimetres long.
# 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	twigs	twig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	sway	sway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nmod
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	longest	long	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
17	insect	insect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	insect	insect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
26	over	over	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:nmod
29	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | Stick insects |  |  |  |  | like twigs | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the longest insect in the world | a Chinese stick insect |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:5`.

**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 ×3, 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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