--- title: Insects wear their skeleton outside like armour, so to grow they spl… — Insects: six legs, three parts; ants, bees and w… · tree and pragmatics description: Insects wear their skeleton outside like armour, so to grow they split it and climb out, leaving an empty skin like the dragonfly nymph's by the pond, and they breathe through tiny holes along their sides. Who acts: Insects, wings. 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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 (Insects, wings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:036-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps.lesson:2 # text = Insects wear their skeleton outside like armour, so to grow they split it and climb out, leaving an empty skin like the dragonfly nymph's by the pond, and they breathe through tiny holes along their sides. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 036-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps.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): no change 1 Insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 wear wear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 skeleton skeleton NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 outside outside ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 6 like like ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 armour armour NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 split split VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 ccomp _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 climb climb VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 17 out out ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 leaving leave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 20 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 empty empty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 like like ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 dragonfly dragonfly NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 nymph nymph NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 27 's 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 by by ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 pond pond NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 breathe breathe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 35 through through ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 holes hole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ _ 38 along along ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nmod _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wear** | present | Insects | wings's skeleton | | | | like armour; outside *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent skeleton=Source | | 2 | **grow** | to-infinitive | Insects *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **split** | past | wings *= wing* | insect | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 4 | **climb out** | present | wings *= wing* *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **leave** | gerund | wings *= wing* *not said here* | a empty skin | | | | like the dragonfly nymph; by the pond | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent skin=Theme by pond=Location | | 6 | **breathe** | present | wings *= wing* | | | tiny holes along wings's sides | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:036-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps.lesson:2`. **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): no change. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Insects: six legs, three parts; ants,…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/36-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps/0/) - next →: [Insects: six legs, three parts; ants,…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/36-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/36-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps/)