--- title: Think of the class stick insect that nobody can find for five minute… — How animals hide: camouflage and mimicry · tree and pragmatics description: Think of the class stick insect that nobody can find for five minutes: it is right there in the tank, but your eyes hunt for an insect shape and see only twigs. Who acts: you, nobody, insect, eyes. 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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 (you, nobody, insect, eyes), 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:3 # text = Think of the class stick insect that nobody can find for five minutes: it is right there in the tank, but your eyes hunt for an insect shape and see only twigs. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 Think think VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 class class NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 stick stick NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 insect insect NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 obj _ _ 8 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 10 nsubj _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 acl:relcl _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 right right ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 1 parataxis _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 tank tank NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 hunt hunt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 insect insect NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 see see VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj 33 only only ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 twigs twig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | of the stick insect | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **find** | can | nobody | the stick insect | | | minute | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic | | 3 | **is** | present | insect | | | the tank | | right, there *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **hunt** | present | your eyes | | | | | for a insect shape | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for shape=Theme | | 5 | **see** | infinitive | your eyes *not said here* | twigs | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer twig=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:3`. **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. **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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/51-how-animals-hide/2/) - next →: [How animals hide: camouflage and mimicry, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/51-how-animals-hide/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/51-how-animals-hide/)