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title: A stick insect has six legs, like every insect, and can drop a leg i… — Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant f… · tree and pragmatics
description: A stick insect has six legs, like every insect, and can drop a leg if grabbed; a young one can grow it back, often smaller, when it next sheds its skin, but grown-ups no longer shed. Who acts: stick insect, young one, privet, grown ups. A sentence of the lesson «Unusual pets: stick insects, giant sn
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# Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and hermit crabs, sentence 10

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A stick insect has six legs, like every insect, and can drop a leg if grabbed; a young one can grow it back, often smaller, when it next sheds its skin, but grown-ups no longer shed.

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**Who acts:** stick insect, young one, privet, grown ups · **What happens:** have, drop, grab, grow back, shed, grow · **To what, where:** six legs, leg, privet, skin

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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 insect, young one, privet, grown ups), 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:10
# text = A stick insect has six legs, like every insect, and can drop a leg if grabbed; a young one can grow it back, often smaller, when it next sheds its skin, but grown-ups no longer shed.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	insect	insect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	insect	insect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	drop	drop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	grabbed	grab	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=14:conj
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	back	back	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	often	often	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	parataxis	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	34	advmod	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	next	next	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	sheds	shed	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
35	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
39	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=41:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
40	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	41	punct	_	_
41	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj	_	_
42	no	no	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	44	advmod	_	_
44	shed	shed	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **have** | present | a stick insect | six legs and every insect |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient |
| 2 | **drop** | can | a stick insect *not said here* | a leg |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Theme |
| 3 | **grab** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle | a stick insect *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **grow back** | can | a young one | privet |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
| 5 | **shed** | present | privet | privet's skin |  |  |  | next *property* | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location skin=Source |
| 6 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **shed** | present | grown ups |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |

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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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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