--- title: A stick insect that falls and lies stiff is playing dead so a hunter… — Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant f… · tree and pragmatics description: A stick insect that falls and lies stiff is playing dead so a hunter loses interest, and some stick insects are among the longest insects in the world, over half a metre with legs out. Who acts: stick insect, hunter, stick insects. 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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 (stick insect, hunter, stick insects), 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:11 # text = A stick insect that falls and lies stiff is playing dead so a hunter loses interest, and some stick insects are among the longest insects in the world, over half a metre with legs out. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-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 10 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 4 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 lies lie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 8 stiff stiff ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 playing play VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:ccomp 11 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 hunter hunter NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 loses lose VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 16 interest interest NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 19 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 21 det _ _ 20 stick stick NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 22 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 23 among among ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 longest long ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 26 amod _ _ 26 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 appos _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 over over ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 32 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 34 det:predet _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 metre metre NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:nmod:unmarked 35 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nmod _ _ 37 out out ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall** | present | a stick insect | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **lie** | present | a stick insect *not said here* | | | | | stiff *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **play** | present · progressive | a stick insect | | | | | dead *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **lose** | present | a hunter | interest | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Eventuality | | 5 | **is** | present | some stick insects | | | the world | | among the longest insects | tree rules | 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:330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs.lesson:11`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-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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