--- title: Camouflage means looking like the things around you: a stick insect… — How animals hide: camouflage and mimicry · tree and pragmatics description: Camouflage means looking like the things around you: a stick insect looks like a twig, a polar bear looks like snow, a flounder looks like the sandy seabed, a tawny owl looks like bark. Who acts: Camouflage, stick insect, polar bear, flounder. 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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 (Camouflage, stick insect, polar bear, flounder), 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:1 # text = Camouflage means looking like the things around you: a stick insect looks like a twig, a polar bear looks like snow, a flounder looks like the sandy seabed, a tawny owl looks like bark. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Camouflage camouflage NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp 4 like like ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 around around ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nmod _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 stick stick NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 insect insect NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 14 like like ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 twig twig NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 polar polar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 22 like like ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 flounder flounder NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 28 like like ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 sandy sandy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 seabed seabed NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 tawny tawny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 owl owl NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 37 like like ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 bark bark NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Camouflage | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **look** *not said to happen* | gerund | Camouflage *not said here* | | | | | like the things around you | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **look** | present | a stick insect | | | | | like a twig | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **look** | present | a polar bear | | | | | like snow | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **look** | present | a flounder | | | | | like the sandy seabed | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **look** | present | a tawny owl | | | | | like bark | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:051-how-animals-hide.lesson:1`. **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 ×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: [How animals hide: camouflage and mimicry, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/51-how-animals-hide/0/) - next →: [How animals hide: camouflage and mimicry, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/51-how-animals-hide/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/51-how-animals-hide/)