--- title: Hermit crabs need damp air and company because they live in groups,… — Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant f… · tree and pragmatics description: Hermit crabs need damp air and company because they live in groups, and with good care some are reported to live over 20 years. Who acts: Hermit crabs, crabs. A sentence of the lesson «Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and hermit crabs» of the biology course of Mova's primary scho --- [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/19/) [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/) / 19 # Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and hermit crabs, sentence 19 Hermit crabs need damp air and company because they live in groups, and with good care some are reported to live over 20 years. **Who acts:** Hermit crabs, crabs · **What happens:** need, live, report · **To what, where:** damp air, groups, some 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 crabs, crabs), 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:19 # text = Hermit crabs need damp air and company because they live in groups, and with good care some are reported to live over 20 years. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 Hermit hermit NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 crabs crab NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 damp damp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 company company NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 8 because because SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 groups group NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=10:punct 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 18 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 over over ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl:unmarked _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | present | Hermit crabs | damp air and company | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot air=Theme | | 2 | **live** | present | crabs *= crab* | | | groups | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in group=Location | | 3 | **report** | present · passive | | some | | | | with good care | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | | 4 | **live** | to-infinitive | | | | | year | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:19`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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