--- title: When its home dries out, a tardigrade pulls in its legs and head and… — The axolotl, the tardigrade and the mantis shrimp · tree and pragmatics description: When its home dries out, a tardigrade pulls in its legs and head and shrivels into a tun, which can survive for years and come back to life when wetted. Who acts: home, tardigrade, tun. 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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 (home, tardigrade, tun), 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:9 # text = When its home dries out, a tardigrade pulls in its legs and head and shrivels into a tun, which can survive for years and come back to life when wetted. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 2 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 dries dry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 5 out out ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:det 8 tardigrade tardigrade NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 pulls pull VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 in in ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:obj 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 shrivels shrivel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 17 into into ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 tun tun NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 survive survive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 acl:relcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:parataxis 24 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 28 back back ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 31 when when SCONJ WRB _ 32 mark _ _ 32 wetted wet VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 advcl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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 | **dry out** | present | moss's home | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **pull in** | present | a tardigrade | tardigrade's legs and head | | | | | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **shrivel** | present | a tardigrade *not said here* | | | | | into a tun *result* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent into tun=Result | | 4 | **survive** | can | a tun | | | | year | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **come back** | infinitive | a tun *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **wet** | participle | a tun *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: 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:044-axolotl-tardigrade-mantis-shrimp.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/44-axolotl-tardigrade-mantis-shrimp/8/) - next →: [The axolotl, the tardigrade and the ma…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/44-axolotl-tardigrade-mantis-shrimp/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/44-axolotl-tardigrade-mantis-shrimp/)