--- title: Stick insects rock like twigs in the wind so hunters ignore them, th… — Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant f… · tree and pragmatics description: Stick insects rock like twigs in the wind so hunters ignore them, they eat leaves such as bramble or privet, and many pet stick insects lay eggs that hatch without a father. Who acts: Stick insects, hunters, many stick insects, eggs. 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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 insects, hunters, many stick insects, eggs), 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:9 # text = Stick insects rock like twigs in the wind so hunters ignore them, they eat leaves such as bramble or privet, and many pet stick insects lay eggs that hatch without a father. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Stick stick NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 rock rock VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 like like ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 twigs twig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 10 hunters hunter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 ignore ignore VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 12 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 16 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 19 case _ _ 18 as as ADP IN _ 17 fixed _ _ 19 bramble bramble NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 privet privet NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 24 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 25 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 stick stick NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 29 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 30 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 31 hatch hatch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 32 without without ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rock** | present | Stick insects | | | | | like twigs in the wind | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **ignore** | present | hunters | insects *= insect* | | | | | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 3 | **eat** | present | hunters *= hunter* | leaves | | | | such bramble or privet | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient | | 4 | **lay** | present | many stick insects | eggs | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | | 5 | **hatch** | present | eggs | | | | | without a father | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient | 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:9`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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