--- title: A flounder lies flat on the seabed, flicks sand over its edges and c… — How animals hide: camouflage and mimicry · tree and pragmatics description: A flounder lies flat on the seabed, flicks sand over its edges and changes its pattern to match; a baby flounder swims upright, then one eye moves over to the other side of its head. Who acts: flounder, baby flounder, one eye. 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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 (flounder, baby flounder, one eye), 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:9 # text = A flounder lies flat on the seabed, flicks sand over its edges and changes its pattern to match; a baby flounder swims upright, then one eye moves over to the other side of its head. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 flounder flounder NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 lies lie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 flat flat ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 seabed seabed NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 flicks flick VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 10 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 over over ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 edges edge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 changes change VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 pattern pattern NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:nmod 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 match match VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:acl 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 flounder flounder NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:compound 24 swims swim NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 25 upright upright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 30 advmod _ _ 28 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj 31 over over ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | present | a flounder | | | the seabed | | flat *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on seabed=Location | | 2 | **flick** | present | a flounder *not said here* | sand | | flounder's edges | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent sand=Theme over edge=Destination | | 3 | **change** | present | a flounder *not said here* | flounder's pattern | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pattern=Patient | | 4 | **match** | to-infinitive | a flounder *not said here* | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **swim** | | a baby flounder | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **move over** | present | one eye | | | | then | to the other side of flounder's head *result*; over *property* | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to side=Result | | 7 | **pattern** | | flounder | | | | | | nom pattern «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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