How animals hide: camouflage and mimicry, sentence 6

Stick insects are long, thin and brown or green, and they hold still or sway gently like a twig in the wind; one from China measured about 64 cm with its legs stretched out.

Who acts: Stick insects, crystals, one · What happens: be, hold, sway, measure, stretch out · To what, where: 64 cm, legs

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 (Stick insects, crystals, one), 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	Stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 insects	compound
2	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 long	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 long	cop
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thin	punct
6	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 long	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 brown	cc
8	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 long	conj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 green	cc
10	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 long	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hold	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 hold	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 hold	nsubj
14	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 long	conj
15	still	still	ADV	_	14 hold	advmod
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 sway	cc
17	sway	sway	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 hold	conj
18	gently	gently	ADV	_	17 sway	advmod
19	like	like	ADP	_	21 twig	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 twig	det
21	twig	twig	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sway	nmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 wind	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 wind	det
24	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 twig	nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 measured	punct
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 measured	nsubj
27	from	from	ADP	_	28 China	case
28	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 one	nmod
29	measured	measure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 long	parataxis
30	about	about	ADV	_	31 64	advmod
31	64	64	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	32 cm	nummod
32	cm	cm	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 measured	obj
33	with	with	SCONJ	_	36 stretched	mark
34	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 legs	nmod:poss
35	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 stretched	nsubj:pass
36	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 measured	advcl
37	out	out	ADP	_	36 stretched	compound:prt
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 long	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Stick insects			long property	tree rules
2	be		Stick insects not said here				tree rules
3	be		Stick insects not said here				tree rules
4	be		Stick insects not said here				tree rules
5	hold	present	crystals = crystal		still		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	sway	present	crystals = crystal not said here			like a twig in the wind; gently property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	measure	past	one from China	64 cm			vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme cm=Value
8	stretch out	participle · passive		insect's legs			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

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:6.

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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