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title: Stick insects, giant snails, ants and hermit crabs live in tanks and… — Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant f… · tree and pragmatics
description: Stick insects, giant snails, ants and hermit crabs live in tanks and jars, and each one is a small window into how animals survive. Who acts: Stick insects, one, animals. A sentence of the lesson «Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and hermit crabs» of the biology course of Mova's 
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# Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and hermit crabs, sentence 1

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Stick insects, giant snails, ants and hermit crabs live in tanks and jars, and each one is a small window into how animals survive.

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**Who acts:** Stick insects, one, animals · **What happens:** live, be, survive · **To what, where:** tanks, small window

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and hermit crabs» 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 (Stick insects, one, animals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs.lesson:1
# text = Stick insects, giant snails, ants and hermit crabs live in tanks and jars, and each one is a small window into how animals survive.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs.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	Stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	snails	snail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	ants	ant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	hermit	hermit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	crabs	crab	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
11	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	tanks	tank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	jars	jar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
26	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	survive	survive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	nmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **live** | present | Stick insects and giant snails and ants and hermit crabs |  |  | tanks and jars |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tank=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | present | each one | a small window |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **survive** | present | animals |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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