--- title: Mimicry is a different trick: a harmless animal copies a dangerous o… — How animals hide: camouflage and mimicry · tree and pragmatics description: Mimicry is a different trick: a harmless animal copies a dangerous one, like the hoverfly dressed as a wasp, or copies something nobody wants to eat, like the caterpillar dressed as a bird dropping. Who acts: Mimicry, harmless animal, nobody. 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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 (Mimicry, harmless animal, nobody), 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:2 # text = Mimicry is a different trick: a harmless animal copies a dangerous one, like the hoverfly dressed as a wasp, or copies something nobody wants to eat, like the caterpillar dressed as a bird dropping. # 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 Mimicry mimicry NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 harmless harmless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 copies copy VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 dangerous dangerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 like like ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 hoverfly hoverfly NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 18 dressed dress VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ _ 19 as as ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 wasp wasp NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 copies copy VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 25 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 29 obj _ _ 26 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 27 nsubj _ _ 27 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 like like ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 caterpillar caterpillar NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 34 dressed dress VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 acl _ _ 35 as as ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 dropping dropping NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Mimicry | a different trick | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **copy** | present | a harmless animal | a dangerous one | | | | like the hoverfly | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | | 3 | **dress** | participle | | the hoverfly *not said here* | | | | as a wasp | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **copy** | present | a harmless animal *not said here* | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **want** | present | nobody | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **eat** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | nobody *not said here* | something | | | | like the caterpillar | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | | 7 | **dress** | participle | | the caterpillar *not said here* | | | | as a bird dropping | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «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. 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