--- title: The orchid mantis looks like a flower, catches insects that come to… — Masters of camouflage · tree and pragmatics description: The orchid mantis looks like a flower, catches insects that come to it, and some insects are even more attracted to it than to real flowers. Who acts: orchid mantis, insects. A sentence of the lesson «Masters of camouflage» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/189-masters-of-camouflage/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Masters of camouflage](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/189-masters-of-camouflage/) / 9 # Masters of camouflage, sentence 9 The orchid mantis looks like a flower, catches insects that come to it, and some insects are even more attracted to it than to real flowers. **Who acts:** orchid mantis, insects · **What happens:** look, catch, come, attract · **To what, where:** insects, mantis 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 (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:189-masters-of-camouflage.lesson:9 # text = The orchid mantis looks like a flower, catches insects that come to it, and some insects are even more attracted to it than to real flowers. # 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): no change 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 orchid orchid NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 mantis mantis NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 like like ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 catches catch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 17 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 18 det _ _ 18 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 20 even even ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 22 advmod _ _ 22 attracted attract VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obl _ _ 25 than than ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | present | the orchid mantis | | | | | like a flower | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **catch** | present | the orchid mantis *not said here* | insects | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Theme | | 3 | **come** | present | insects | | | mantis | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to it=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **attract** | present · passive | | some insects | mantis | | | than real flowers | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to it=Result | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:189-masters-of-camouflage.lesson:9`. **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): no change. **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/). - ← previous: [Masters of camouflage, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/189-masters-of-camouflage/8/) - next →: [Masters of camouflage, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/189-masters-of-camouflage/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/189-masters-of-camouflage/)