--- title: The peacock mantis shrimp strikes with club-shaped limbs at about 80… — The axolotl, the tardigrade and the mantis shrimp · tree and pragmatics description: The peacock mantis shrimp strikes with club-shaped limbs at about 80 km/h, using a spring-and-catch: muscles slowly load the spring, then the catch lets all that energy go at once, fast enough to smash snail shells and to crack aquarium glass in big ones. 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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 (mantis shrimp, muscles, catch, energy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:044-axolotl-tardigrade-mantis-shrimp.lesson:12 # text = The peacock mantis shrimp strikes with club-shaped limbs at about 80 km/h, using a spring-and-catch: muscles slowly load the spring, then the catch lets all that energy go at once, fast enough to smash snail shells and to crack aquarium glass in big ones. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 044-axolotl-tardigrade-mantis-shrimp.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:det 2 peacock peacock NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 mantis mantis NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:compound 4 shrimp shrimp NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:compound 5 strikes strike VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 club club NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ _ 9 shaped shaped ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 limbs limb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 about about ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 80 80 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 km/h km/h NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 using use VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 41 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ _ 22 catch catch NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl:unmarked _ _ 23 : : PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 24 muscles muscle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 25 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 load load VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 then then ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 catch catch NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 34 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 36 det:predet _ _ 35 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 36 det _ _ 36 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 37 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 38 at at ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 once once ADV RB _ 37 obl _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 41 fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 acl:relcl _ _ 42 enough enough ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 43 to to PART TO _ 44 mark _ _ 44 smash smash VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=41:parataxis 45 snail snail NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 compound _ _ 46 shells shell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obj _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 48 to to PART TO _ 49 mark _ _ 49 crack crack VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 conj _ _ 50 aquarium aquarium NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 compound _ _ 51 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obj _ _ 52 in in ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 53 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 54 amod _ _ 54 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 49 obl _ _ 55 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **strike** | present | the mantis shrimp | | | | | with shaped limbs; at 80 km/h | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with limb=Instrument at km/h=Patient | | 2 | **use** | gerund | the mantis shrimp *not said here* | | | | spring | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **load** | present | muscles | | | | spring | slowly *property* | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **let** | present | the catch | all energy | | | then | | tree rules | | 5 | **go** | infinitive | all energy *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location | | 6 | **smash** | to-infinitive | the mantis shrimp *not said here* | snail shells | | | | enough *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Theme | | 7 | **crack** | to-infinitive | the mantis shrimp *not said here* | aquarium glass | | | | in big ones | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location glass=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:044-axolotl-tardigrade-mantis-shrimp.lesson:12`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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