--- title: A hermit crab has ten legs, but the back ones are small and hidden i… — Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant f… · tree and pragmatics description: A hermit crab has ten legs, but the back ones are small and hidden inside the shell to hold on, so only six are easy to see. Who acts: hermit crab, back ones, six. A sentence of the lesson «Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and hermit crabs» of the biology course of Mova's primary --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs/18/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Unusual pets: stick insects, giant sna…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs/) / 18 # Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and hermit crabs, sentence 18 A hermit crab has ten legs, but the back ones are small and hidden inside the shell to hold on, so only six are easy to see. **Who acts:** hermit crab, back ones, six · **What happens:** have, be, hide, hold on, see · **To what, where:** ten legs, shell 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 (hermit crab, back ones, six), 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:18 # text = A hermit crab has ten legs, but the back ones are small and hidden inside the shell to hold on, so only six are easy to see. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 hermit hermit NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 crab crab NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 hidden hide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 16 inside inside ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:acl 21 on on ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 24 only only ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nsubj _ _ 26 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 easy easy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | a hermit crab | ten legs | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | | 2 | **is** | present | the back ones | | | | | small *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **hide** | participle | the back ones *not said here* | | | the shell | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent inside shell=Location | | 4 | **hold on** | to-infinitive | the back ones *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | six | | | | | easy *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **see** | to-infinitive | six *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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:18`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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