Masters of camouflage, sentence 9

The orchid mantis looks like a flower, catches insects that come to it, and some insects are even more attracted to it than to real flowers.

Who acts: orchid mantis, insects · What happens: look, catch, come, attract · To what, where: insects, mantis

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 (orchid mantis, insects), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mantis	det
2	orchid	orchid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mantis	compound
3	mantis	mantis	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looks	nsubj
4	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 flower	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 flower	det
7	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looks	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 catches	punct
9	catches	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 looks	conj
10	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 catches	obj
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 come	nsubj
12	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 insects	acl:relcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 come	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 attracted	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 attracted	cc
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 insects	det
18	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 attracted	nsubj:pass
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 attracted	aux:pass
20	even	even	ADV	_	21 more	advmod
21	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 attracted	advmod
22	attracted	attract	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 looks	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 attracted	obl
25	than	than	ADP	_	28 flowers	case
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 flowers	case
27	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 flowers	amod
28	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 attracted	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 looks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	present	the orchid mantis				like a flower	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	catch	present	the orchid mantis not said here	insects				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Theme
3	come	present	insects			mantis		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to it=Initial_Location
4	attract	present · passive		some insects	mantis		than real flowers	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to it=Result

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:9.

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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