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description: Pigs found hidden food using a mirror, and a tiny jumping spider can plan a detour, losing sight of its prey and still sneaking up from behind. Who acts: Pigs, tiny jumping spider. A sentence of the lesson «Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs» of the biol
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# Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs, sentence 6

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Pigs found hidden food using a mirror, and a tiny jumping spider can plan a detour, losing sight of its prey and still sneaking up from behind.

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**Who acts:** Pigs, tiny jumping spider · **What happens:** find, use, jump, plan, lose, sneak up · **To what, where:** hidden food, mirror, detour, sight, prey

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs» 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 (Pigs, tiny jumping spider), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs.lesson:6
# text = Pigs found hidden food using a mirror, and a tiny jumping spider can plan a detour, losing sight of its prey and still sneaking up from behind.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mirror	mirror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	jumping	jump	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
13	spider	spider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	plan	plan	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	detour	detour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
20	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	still	still	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	sneaking	sneak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
27	up	up	ADV	RB	_	26	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:advmod
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	26	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | Pigs | hidden food |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic |
| 2 | **use** | gerund | Pigs *not said here* | a mirror |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mirror=Patient |
| 3 | **jump** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **plan** | can | a tiny jumping spider | a detour |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent detour=Topic |
| 5 | **lose** | gerund | a tiny jumping spider *not said here* | sight of spider's prey |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Eventuality |
| 6 | **sneak up** | gerund | a tiny jumping spider *not said here* |  |  |  | still |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from behind=Trajectory |
| 7 | **sight** |  |  | spider's prey |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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): 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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