What a habitat is: home, food, shelter and fitting in, sentence 14

Stick insects hide from birds by looking like twigs and even swaying like a twig in the breeze; one from China measured about 64 cm with its legs stretched out.

Who acts: Stick insects, one · What happens: hide, look, sway, measure, stretch out · To what, where: 64 cm, legs

This is a sentence of the lesson «What a habitat is: home, food, shelter and fitting in» 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, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 insects	compound
2	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hide	nsubj
3	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 birds	case
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hide	obl
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 looking	mark
7	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 hide	advcl
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 twigs	case
9	twigs	twig	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 looking	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 swaying	cc
11	even	even	ADV	_	12 swaying	advmod
12	swaying	sway	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 looking	conj
13	like	like	ADP	_	15 twig	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 twig	det
15	twig	twig	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 swaying	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 breeze	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 breeze	det
18	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 twig	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 measured	punct
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 measured	nsubj
21	from	from	ADP	_	22 China	case
22	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 one	nmod
23	measured	measure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hide	parataxis
24	about	about	ADV	_	25 64	advmod
25	64	64	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	26 cm	nummod
26	cm	cm	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 measured	obj
27	with	with	SCONJ	_	30 stretched	mark
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 legs	nmod:poss
29	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 stretched	nsubj:pass
30	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 measured	advcl
31	out	out	ADP	_	30 stretched	compound:prt
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hide	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hide	present	Stick insects		from birds	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from bird=Beneficiary
2	look	gerund	Stick insects not said here		like twigs	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	sway	gerund	Stick insects not said here		like a twig in the breeze	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	measure	past	one from China	64 cm		vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme cm=Value
5	stretch out	participle · passive		breeze's legs		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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, 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:001-what-a-habitat-is.lesson:14.

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): R5-strong ×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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