How animals hide: camouflage and mimicry, sentence 0

Out in the wild, being seen can mean being eaten, and being seen by your dinner means going hungry, so many animals have become masters of hide and seek.

Who acts: dinner, many animals · What happens: see, mean, eat, go, become, seek · To what, where: wild, masters · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «How animals hide: camouflage and mimicry» 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 (dinner, many animals), 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	Out	out	ADV	_	4 wild	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 wild	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wild	det
4	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mean	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 seen	punct
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 seen	aux:pass
7	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 mean	csubj:pass
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 mean	aux
9	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 eaten	aux:pass
11	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 mean	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 means	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 means	cc
14	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 seen	aux:pass
15	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 means	csubj:pass
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 dinner	case
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 dinner	nmod:poss
18	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seen	obl:agent
19	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 mean	conj
20	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 means	xcomp
21	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 going	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 become	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 many	advmod
24	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 animals	amod
25	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 become	nsubj
26	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 become	aux
27	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 mean	conj
28	masters	master	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 become	xcomp
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 hide	case
30	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 masters	nmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 seek	cc
32	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 hide	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 mean	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	gerund · passive					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»
2	mean	can			the wild		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	eat not said to happen	gerund · passive					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»
4	see	gerund · passive	your dinner				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	mean	present					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	go not said to happen	gerund				hungry property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	become	present · perfect	many animals	masters of hide			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
8	seek	infinitive	many animals not said here				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:051-how-animals-hide.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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