--- title: Every tank holds a different survival trick: a stick insect sways li… — The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantula… · tree and pragmatics description: Every tank holds a different survival trick: a stick insect sways like a twig, a scorpion glows under ultraviolet light, a cockroach hisses and a mantis swivels its head to stare at you. Who acts: tank, stick insect, scorpion, cockroach. 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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 (tank, stick insect, scorpion, cockroach), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:097-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions.lesson:1 # text = Every tank holds a different survival trick: a stick insect sways like a twig, a scorpion glows under ultraviolet light, a cockroach hisses and a mantis swivels its head to stare at you. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 097-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions.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 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 tank tank NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 survival survival NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 stick stick NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 insect insect NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 sways sway VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl _ _ 13 like like ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 twig twig NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 scorpion scorpion NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 glows glow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 20 under under ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 ultraviolet ultraviolet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 cockroach cockroach NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 hisses hiss VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 mantis mantis NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 swivels swivel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 31 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 stare stare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 advcl _ _ 35 at at ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 34 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | present | every tank | a different survival trick | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme | | 2 | **sway** | present | a stick insect | a different survival trick *not said here* | | | | like a twig | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location trick=Theme | | 3 | **glow** | present | a scorpion | | | ultraviolet light | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under light=Location | | 4 | **hiss** | present | a cockroach | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **swivel** | present | a mantis | mantis's head | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **stare** | to-infinitive | a mantis *not said here* | | | | | at you | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at you=Theme | 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:097-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions.lesson:1`. **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): R7-rel-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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