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title: Some animals hide, but others want to be seen: the bright blue poiso… — How animals defend themselves · tree and pragmatics
description: Some animals hide, but others want to be seen: the bright blue poison dart frog and the black and white skunk wear warning colours that say, loud and clear, do not even try. Who acts: animals, others, bright blue dart frog, warning colours. A sentence of the lesson «How animals defend themselves» of
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# How animals defend themselves, sentence 2

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Some animals hide, but others want to be seen: the bright blue poison dart frog and the black and white skunk wear warning colours that say, loud and clear, do not even try.

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**Who acts:** animals, others, bright blue dart frog, warning colours · **What happens:** hide, want, see, wear, say, not try · **To what, where:** warning colours · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How animals defend themselves» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (animals, others, bright blue dart frog, warning colours), 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:2
# text = Some animals hide, but others want to be seen: the bright blue poison dart frog and the black and white skunk wear warning colours that say, loud and clear, do not even try.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	xcomp	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
13	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
14	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	dart	dart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
23	skunk	skunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
24	wear	wear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
25	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=37:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
36	even	even	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	try	try	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	28	ccomp	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | present | some animals |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **want** | present | others |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | others *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |
| 4 | **wear** | present | the bright blue dart frog and the black skunk | warning colours |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent colour=Source |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | warning colours |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **not** **try** | present · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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.

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**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): R8-pos-agree ×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.

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