Masters of camouflage, sentence 1

Some animals copy a thing: a stick insect looks like a twig, a potoo bird like a broken stump, a leafy seadragon like floating seaweed and an orchid mantis like a pink flower.

Who acts: animals, stick insect · What happens: copy, look, float · To what, where: thing

This is a sentence of the lesson «Masters of camouflage» 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, stick insect), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 animals	det
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 copy	nsubj
3	copy	copy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 thing	det
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 copy	obj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 looks	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 insect	det
8	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 insect	compound
9	insect	insect	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 looks	nsubj
10	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 copy	parataxis
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 twig	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 twig	det
13	twig	twig	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 looks	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bird	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 bird	det
16	potoo	potoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bird	compound
17	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 twig	conj
18	like	like	ADP	_	21 stump	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 stump	det
20	broken	broken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 stump	amod
21	stump	stump	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bird	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 seadragon	punct
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 seadragon	det
24	leafy	leafy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 seadragon	amod
25	seadragon	seadragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 twig	conj
26	like	like	ADP	_	28 seaweed	case
27	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 seaweed	amod
28	seaweed	seaweed	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 seadragon	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 mantis	cc
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 mantis	det
31	orchid	orchid	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 mantis	compound
32	mantis	mantis	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 twig	conj
33	like	like	ADP	_	36 flower	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 flower	det
35	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 flower	amod
36	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 mantis	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 copy	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	copy	present	some animals	a thing		vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
2	look	present	a stick insect		like a twig and a potoo bird like a broken stump and a leafy seadragon like floating seaweed and a orchid mantis like a pink flower	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	float	gerund				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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, 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:189-masters-of-camouflage.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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