--- title: Games and memes call tardigrades indestructible and say mantis shrim… — The axolotl, the tardigrade and the mantis shrimp · tree and pragmatics description: Games and memes call tardigrades indestructible and say mantis shrimps see a rainbow we cannot imagine; the truth is cleverer, because the tardigrade survives by shutting down and the mantis shrimp sees colours fast rather than finely. Who acts: Games, mantis shrimps, we, truth. 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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 (Games, mantis shrimps, we, truth), 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:3 # text = Games and memes call tardigrades indestructible and say mantis shrimps see a rainbow we cannot imagine; the truth is cleverer, because the tardigrade survives by shutting down and the mantis shrimp sees colours fast rather than finely. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Games game NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 memes meme NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 tardigrades tardigrade NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 indestructible indestructible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 9 mantis mantis NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 shrimps shrimp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 rainbow rainbow NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 imagine imagine VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 acl:relcl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 cleverer clever ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 parataxis _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 because because SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 tardigrade tardigrade NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 survives survive VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 28 by by SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 29 shutting shut VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:obl 30 down down ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 mantis mantis NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 shrimp shrimp NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 sees see VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 36 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 37 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 35 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:advmod 38 rather rather ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 39 than than ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 finely finely ADV RB Degree=Pos 37 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:obl 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | present | Games and memes | tardigrades | | | | indestructible *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tardigrade=Recipient | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Games and memes *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **see** | present | mantis shrimps | a rainbow | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rainbow=Stimulus | | 4 | **not** **imagine** | can | we | a rainbow *not said here* | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot rainbow=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | the truth | | | | | clever *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **survive** | present | the tardigrade | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **shut down** | gerund | the tardigrade *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **see** | present | the mantis shrimp | colours | | | | fast *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer colour=Stimulus | 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:3`. **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 ×3, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The axolotl, the tardigrade and the ma…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/44-axolotl-tardigrade-mantis-shrimp/2/) - next →: [The axolotl, the tardigrade and the ma…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/44-axolotl-tardigrade-mantis-shrimp/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/44-axolotl-tardigrade-mantis-shrimp/)