The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scorpions, sentence 7

Stick insects look and sway like twigs to hide from birds that hunt by sight, and some can lay eggs that hatch without a male.

Who acts: Stick insects, birds, some, eggs · What happens: look, sway, hide, hunt, lay, hatch · To what, where: eggs

This is a sentence of the lesson «The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scorpions» 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, birds, some, eggs), 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	3 look	nsubj
3	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sway	cc
5	sway	sway	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 look	conj
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 twigs	case
7	twigs	twig	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sway	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 hide	mark
9	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sway	advcl
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 birds	case
11	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hide	obl
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 hunt	nsubj
13	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 birds	acl:relcl
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 sight	case
15	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hunt	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lay	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 lay	cc
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 lay	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 lay	aux
20	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 look	conj
21	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 lay	obj
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 hatch	nsubj
23	hatch	hatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 eggs	acl:relcl
24	without	without	ADP	_	26 male	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 male	det
26	male	male	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hatch	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 look	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	present	Stick insects			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	sway	present	Stick insects not said here		like twigs	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hide	to-infinitive	Stick insects not said here		from birds	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from bird=Beneficiary
4	hunt	present	birds		by sight	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent by sight=Location
5	lay	can	some	eggs		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result
6	hatch	present	eggs		without a male	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=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:097-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions.lesson:7.

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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