--- title: Stick insects look and sway like twigs to hide from birds that hunt… — The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantula… · tree and pragmatics description: Stick insects look and sway like twigs to hide from birds that hunt by sight, and some can lay eggs that hatch without a male. Who acts: Stick insects, birds, some, eggs. A sentence of the lesson «The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scorpions» of the biology course of Mova's primar --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/97-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The insect house: ants, stick insects,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/97-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions/) / 7 # The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scorpions, sentence 7 Stick insects look and sway like twigs to hide from birds that hunt by sight, and some can lay eggs that hatch without a male. **Who acts:** Stick insects, birds, some, eggs · **What happens:** look, sway, hide, hunt, lay, hatch · **To what, where:** eggs This is a sentence of the lesson «The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scorpions» 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 (Stick insects, birds, some, eggs), 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:7 # text = Stick insects look and sway like twigs to hide from birds that hunt by sight, and some can lay eggs that hatch without a male. # 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): no change 1 Stick stick NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 sway sway VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 6 like like ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 twigs twig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 10 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 hunt hunt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 by by ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 20 nsubj _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 lay lay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 21 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 hatch hatch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 24 without without ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 male male NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | present | Stick insects | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **sway** | present | Stick insects *not said here* | | | | | like twigs | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **hide** | to-infinitive | Stick insects *not said here* | | | | | from birds | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from bird=Beneficiary | | 4 | **hunt** | present | birds | | | | | by sight | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent by sight=Location | | 5 | **lay** | can | some | eggs | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | | 6 | **hatch** | present | eggs | | | | | without a male | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:097-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions.lesson:7`. **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. 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