--- title: Big eyespots on a moth's wings can startle a bird, and small eyespot… — Defences: tricks and myths: playing dead, droppi… · tree and pragmatics description: Big eyespots on a moth's wings can startle a bird, and small eyespots near the wing tips draw pecks away from the head; butterflies with a torn eyespot often survive. Who acts: Big eyespots, small eyespots, butterflies. 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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 (Big eyespots, small eyespots, butterflies), 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:10 # text = Big eyespots on a moth's wings can startle a bird, and small eyespots near the wing tips draw pecks away from the head; butterflies with a torn eyespot often survive. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1 1 Big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 eyespots eyespot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 moth moth NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 startle startle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 14 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 eyespots eyespot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 16 near near ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 wing wing NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 tips tip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 20 draw draw VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 21 pecks peck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 away away ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 23 from from ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 butterflies butterfly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 torn tear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 amod _ _ 31 eyespot eyespot NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 32 often often ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 survive survive VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **startle** | can | Big eyespots on a moth's wings | a bird | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bird=Experiencer | | 2 | **draw** | present | small eyespots near the wing tips | pecks | | | | away *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peck=Theme | | 3 | **tear** | participle | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **survive** | present | butterflies with a torn eyespot | | | | | often *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:10`. **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): R2-punct-next ×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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