--- title: If you cannot run faster than the fox, you need another plan, and an… — How animals defend themselves · tree and pragmatics description: If you cannot run faster than the fox, you need another plan, and animals have hundreds: spines, armour, stinks, poison, tricks, fake eyes, playing dead and standing together. Who acts: you, animals. 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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, animals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:053-how-animals-defend-themselves.lesson:0 # text = If you cannot run faster than the fox, you need another plan, and animals have hundreds: spines, armour, stinks, poison, tricks, fake eyes, playing dead and standing together. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 053-how-animals-defend-themselves.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 If if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 6 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 5 advmod _ _ 7 than than ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 14 det _ _ 14 plan plan NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 19 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 21 spines spine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 appos _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 armour armour NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 stinks stink NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 poison poison NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 tricks trick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 fake fake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 playing play VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 conj _ _ 35 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 xcomp _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 standing stand VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 34 conj _ _ 38 together together ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **run** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | you | | | | | than the fox; fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **need** | present | you | another plan | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot plan=Theme | | 3 | **have** | present | animals | hundreds | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Patient | | 4 | **play** | gerund | animals *not said here* | | | | | dead *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **stand together** | gerund | animals *not said here* | | | | | together *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:053-how-animals-defend-themselves.lesson:0`. **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/). - ← previous: [How animals hunt, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/52-how-animals-hunt/17/) - next →: [How animals defend themselves, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/53-how-animals-defend-themselves/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/53-how-animals-defend-themselves/)