--- title: A lizard leaves its wriggling tail behind for the cat, a squid vanis… — Defences: tricks and myths: playing dead, droppi… · tree and pragmatics description: A lizard leaves its wriggling tail behind for the cat, a squid vanishes in a cloud of ink, a moth flashes two big fake eyes, and an opossum lies so still and smelly that it seems dead. Who acts: lizard, squid, moth, opossum. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lizard, squid, moth, opossum), 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:1 # text = A lizard leaves its wriggling tail behind for the cat, a squid vanishes in a cloud of ink, a moth flashes two big fake eyes, and an opossum lies so still and smelly that it seems dead. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 lizard lizard NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 leaves leave VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 wriggling wriggling NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 behind behind ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:det 13 squid squid NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:compound 14 vanishes vanish VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 cloud cloud NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:nmod 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 ink ink NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 moth moth NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 flashes flash VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 24 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 25 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 fake fake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 30 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 opossum opossum NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 lies lie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 33 so so ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:advmod 34 still still ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 smelly smelly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 xcomp _ _ 37 that that SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 advcl _ _ 40 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 xcomp _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave behind** | present | a lizard | lizard's wriggling tail | | | | for the cat | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent tail=Theme for cat=Recipient | | 2 | **vanish** | present | a squid | | | a cloud of ink | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **flash** | present | a moth | two big fake eyes | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | | 4 | **lie** | present | a opossum | | | | | smelly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **seem** | present | it | | | | | dead *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **cloud** | | | ink | | | | | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | 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:249-defences-tricks-and-myths-playing-dead-dropping-tails-ink-and-ostriches.lesson:1`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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