--- title: Out in the wild, being seen can mean being eaten, and being seen by… — How animals hide: camouflage and mimicry · tree and pragmatics description: Out in the wild, being seen can mean being eaten, and being seen by your dinner means going hungry, so many animals have become masters of hide and seek. Who acts: dinner, many animals. 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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 (dinner, many animals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:051-how-animals-hide.lesson:0 # text = Out in the wild, being seen can mean being eaten, and being seen by your dinner means going hungry, so many animals have become masters of hide and seek. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 051-how-animals-hide.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Out out ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 wild wild NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 csubj:pass _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:ccomp 12 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 14 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 19 csubj:pass _ _ 16 by by ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl:agent _ _ 19 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 20 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 xcomp _ _ 21 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 26 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 become become VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 conj _ _ 28 masters master NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 xcomp _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 hide hide NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 seek seek VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 33 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | gerund · passive | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» | | 2 | **mean** | can | | | | the wild | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **eat** *not said to happen* | gerund · passive | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V» | | 4 | **see** | gerund · passive | your dinner | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **go** *not said to happen* | gerund | | | | | | hungry *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **become** | present · perfect | many animals | masters of hide | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **seek** | infinitive | many animals *not said here* | | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «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:051-how-animals-hide.lesson:0`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [How animals talk, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/50-how-animals-talk/15/) - next →: [How animals hide: camouflage and mimicry, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/51-how-animals-hide/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/51-how-animals-hide/)