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description: Some animals escape not with spikes or poison but with a trick, like a magician who makes you look the wrong way. Who acts: animals, magician, you. A sentence of the lesson «Defences: tricks and myths: playing dead, dropping tails, ink, and do ostriches bury their heads?» of the biology course of Mo
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# Defences: tricks and myths: playing dead, dropping tails, ink, and do ostriches bury their heads?, sentence 0

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Some animals escape not with spikes or poison but with a trick, like a magician who makes you look the wrong way.

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**Who acts:** animals, magician, you · **What happens:** escape, make, look · **To what, where:** you, wrong way

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Defences: tricks and myths: playing dead, dropping tails, ink, and do ostriches bury their heads?» 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 (animals, magician, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:249-defences-tricks-and-myths-playing-dead-dropping-tails-ink-and-ostriches.lesson:0
# text = Some animals escape not with spikes or poison but with a trick, like a magician who makes you look the wrong way.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 249-defences-tricks-and-myths-playing-dead-dropping-tails-ink-and-ostriches.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	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	escape	escape	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	spikes	spike	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **escape** | present | some animals |  |  |  |  | with spikes or poison but a trick | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | present | a magician | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the wrong way |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Attribute |

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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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**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.

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