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title: Museums use hide beetles to eat dried flesh off bones without harmin… — Beetles: the biggest group of animals on Earth,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Museums use hide beetles to eat dried flesh off bones without harming them, cleaning a small skull in a few days, but similar beetles are pests that eat stuffed animals and wool. Who acts: Museums, similar beetles, pests. A sentence of the lesson «Beetles: the biggest group of animals on Earth, wing
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# Beetles: the biggest group of animals on Earth, wing cases and six legs, sentence 16

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Museums use hide beetles to eat dried flesh off bones without harming them, cleaning a small skull in a few days, but similar beetles are pests that eat stuffed animals and wool.

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**Who acts:** Museums, similar beetles, pests · **What happens:** use, eat, dry, harm, clean, be · **To what, where:** hide beetles, dried flesh, bones, small skull, pests, stuffed animals

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Beetles: the biggest group of animals on Earth, wing cases and six legs» 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 (Museums, similar beetles, pests), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:306-beetles-the-biggest-group-of-animals-on-earth-wing-cases-and-six-legs.lesson:16
# text = Museums use hide beetles to eat dried flesh off bones without harming them, cleaning a small skull in a few days, but similar beetles are pests that eat stuffed animals and wool.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 306-beetles-the-biggest-group-of-animals-on-earth-wing-cases-and-six-legs.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): R5-strong ×1
1	Museums	museum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	hide	hide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	beetles	beetle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	off	off	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	harming	harm	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	cleaning	clean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advcl
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	skull	skull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	beetles	beetle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	pests	pest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
31	stuffed	stuff	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	amod	_	_
32	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	wool	wool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **use** | present | Museums | hide beetles |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beetle=Patient |
| 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | Museums *not said here* | dried flesh |  |  |  | off bones | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flesh=Patient |
| 3 | **dry** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **harm** | gerund | Museums *not said here* | bones *= bone* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |
| 5 | **clean** | gerund | Museums *not said here* | a small skull |  |  | day |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent skull=Patient |
| 6 | **is a** | present | similar beetles | pests |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **eat** | present | pests | stuffed animals and wool |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Patient |
| 8 | **stuff** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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): R5-strong ×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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