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title: Lift a log or a stone and a whole hidden town scurries away: grey wo… — Spiders and other minibeasts under logs and stones · tree and pragmatics
description: Lift a log or a stone and a whole hidden town scurries away: grey woodlice, which are cousins of crabs, fast hunting centipedes, slow millipedes that curl into a coil, and shiny beetles. Who acts: you, whole hidden town, grey woodlice, slow millipedes. A sentence of the lesson «Spiders and other min
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# Spiders and other minibeasts under logs and stones, sentence 2

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Lift a log or a stone and a whole hidden town scurries away: grey woodlice, which are cousins of crabs, fast hunting centipedes, slow millipedes that curl into a coil, and shiny beetles.

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**Who acts:** you, whole hidden town, grey woodlice, slow millipedes · **What happens:** lift, scurry away, be, curl · **To what, where:** log, cousins, coil

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Spiders and other minibeasts under logs and stones» 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 (you, whole hidden town, grey woodlice, slow millipedes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:220-spiders-and-other-minibeasts-under-logs-and-stones.lesson:2
# text = Lift a log or a stone and a whole hidden town scurries away: grey woodlice, which are cousins of crabs, fast hunting centipedes, slow millipedes that curl into a coil, and shiny beetles.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 220-spiders-and-other-minibeasts-under-logs-and-stones.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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Lift	lift	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
11	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	scurries	scurry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	woodlice	woodlice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:det|HaikuPos=DET:WDT:PronType=Int
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	cousins	cousin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:conj
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	crabs	crab	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	centipedes	centipede	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	millipedes	millipede	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
31	curl	curl	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
32	into	into	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	coil	coil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	beetles	beetle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **lift** | imperative | you *not said here* | a log or a stone |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent log=Theme |
| 2 | **scurry away** | present | a whole hidden town |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | grey woodlice and fast hunting centipedes and slow millipedes and shiny beetles | cousins |  |  |  | of crabs | tree rules |
| 4 | **curl** | present | slow millipedes |  |  | a coil |  |  | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into coil=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:220-spiders-and-other-minibeasts-under-logs-and-stones.lesson:2`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×2, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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