Defences: tricks and myths: playing dead, dropping tails, ink, and do ostriches bury their heads?, sentence 0

Some animals escape not with spikes or poison but with a trick, like a magician who makes you look the wrong way.

Who acts: animals, magician, you · What happens: escape, make, look · To what, where: you, wrong way

This is a sentence of the lesson «Defences: tricks and myths: playing dead, dropping tails, ink, and do ostriches bury their heads?» 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, magician, you), 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 escape	nsubj
3	escape	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 spikes	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 spikes	case
6	spikes	spike	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 escape	obl
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 poison	cc
8	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spikes	conj
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 trick	cc
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 trick	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 trick	det
12	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spikes	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 magician	punct
14	like	like	ADP	_	16 magician	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 magician	det
16	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 trick	appos
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 makes	nsubj
18	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 magician	acl:relcl
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 makes	obj
20	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 makes	xcomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 way	det
22	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 way	amod
23	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 look	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 escape	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	escape	present	some animals		with spikes or poison but a trick	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	present	a magician	you		tree rules
3	look	infinitive	you not said here	the wrong way		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Attribute

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:249-defences-tricks-and-myths-playing-dead-dropping-tails-ink-and-ostriches.lesson:0.

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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