Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and hermit crabs, sentence 11

A stick insect that falls and lies stiff is playing dead so a hunter loses interest, and some stick insects are among the longest insects in the world, over half a metre with legs out.

Who acts: stick insect, hunter, stick insects · What happens: fall, lie, play, lose, be · To what, where: interest, world

This is a sentence of the lesson «Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and hermit crabs» 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 insect, hunter, stick 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 insect	det
2	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 insect	compound
3	insect	insect	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 playing	nsubj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 falls	nsubj
5	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 insect	acl:relcl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 lies	cc
7	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 falls	conj
8	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lies	xcomp
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 playing	aux
10	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 playing	xcomp
12	so	so	ADV	_	15 loses	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 hunter	det
14	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 loses	nsubj
15	loses	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 falls	conj
16	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 loses	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 insects	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 insects	cc
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 insects	det
20	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 insects	compound
21	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 insects	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 insects	cop
23	among	among	ADP	_	26 insects	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 insects	det
25	longest	long	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 insects	amod
26	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 insect	appos
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 world	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 world	det
29	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 insects	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 over	punct
31	over	over	ADV	_	34 metre	advmod
32	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	34 metre	det:predet
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 metre	det
34	metre	metre	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 insects	appos
35	with	with	ADP	_	36 legs	case
36	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 metre	nmod
37	out	out	ADV	_	34 metre	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 insect	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	present	a stick insect				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lie	present	a stick insect not said here			stiff property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	play	present · progressive	a stick insect			dead property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	lose	present	a hunter	interest			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Eventuality
5	is	present	some stick insects		the world	among the longest insects	tree rules

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:330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs.lesson:11.

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 ×2, 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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