--- title: Stick insects are long, thin and brown or green, and they hold still… — How animals hide: camouflage and mimicry · tree and pragmatics description: Stick insects are long, thin and brown or green, and they hold still or sway gently like a twig in the wind; one from China measured about 64 cm with its legs stretched out. Who acts: Stick insects, crystals, one. 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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 (Stick insects, crystals, one), 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:6 # text = Stick insects are long, thin and brown or green, and they hold still or sway gently like a twig in the wind; one from China measured about 64 cm with its legs stretched out. # 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 ×1 1 Stick stick 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 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 hold hold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 15 still still ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 sway sway VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 18 gently gently ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 like like ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 twig twig NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 26 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nsubj _ _ 27 from from ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 29 measured measure VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 30 about about ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 64 64 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 32 cm cm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 33 with with SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 34 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 36 stretched stretch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 advcl _ _ 37 out out ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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** | present | Stick insects | | | | | long *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | Stick insects *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | Stick insects *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | Stick insects *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **hold** | present | crystals *= crystal* | | | | still | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **sway** | present | crystals *= crystal* *not said here* | | | | | like a twig in the wind; gently *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **measure** | past | one from China | 64 cm | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme cm=Value | | 8 | **stretch out** | participle · passive | | insect's legs | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | 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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