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title: Leaf insects are flat and green with leaf veins and even brown spots… — How animals hide: camouflage and mimicry · tree and pragmatics
description: Leaf insects are flat and green with leaf veins and even brown spots like bite marks, and some rock gently like a leaf in the breeze. Who acts: Leaf insects, some. A sentence of the lesson «How animals hide: camouflage and mimicry» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t
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# How animals hide: camouflage and mimicry, sentence 17

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Leaf insects are flat and green with leaf veins and even brown spots like bite marks, and some rock gently like a leaf in the breeze.

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**Who acts:** Leaf insects, some · **What happens:** be, rock

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How animals hide: camouflage and mimicry» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Leaf insects, some), 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:17
# text = Leaf insects are flat and green with leaf veins and even brown spots like bite marks, and some rock gently like a leaf in the breeze.
# 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): no change
1	Leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	veins	vein	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	even	even	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	bite	bite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	some	some	PRON	DT	PronType=Ind	20	nsubj	_	_
20	rock	rock	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	breeze	breeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Leaf insects |  |  |  |  | flat *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Leaf insects *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with leaf veins and brown spots like bite marks | tree rules |
| 3 | **rock** | present | some |  |  |  |  | like a leaf in the breeze; gently *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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:17`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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