Worms, snails and slugs, sentence 1

These soft little animals have no bones at all: a worm moves by squeezing and stretching its rings while tiny bristles grip the soil, and a snail glides along on a wave of slime under its one big foot.

Who acts: soft little animals, worm, tiny bristles, snail · What happens: have, move, squeeze, stretch, grip, glide · To what, where: bones, all, rings, soil, wave, slime

This is a sentence of the lesson «Worms, snails and slugs» 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 (soft little animals, worm, tiny bristles, snail), 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 animals	det
2	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 animals	amod
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 animals	amod
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 bones	det
7	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 bones	nmod
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 moves	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 worm	det
12	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 moves	nsubj
13	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 have	parataxis
14	by	by	SCONJ	_	15 squeezing	mark
15	squeezing	squeeze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 moves	advcl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 stretching	cc
17	stretching	stretch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 squeezing	conj
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 rings	nmod:poss
19	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 stretching	obj
20	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 grip	mark
21	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 bristles	amod
22	bristles	bristle	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 grip	nsubj
23	grip	grip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 stretching	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 soil	det
25	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 grip	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 glides	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 glides	cc
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 snail	det
29	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 glides	nsubj
30	glides	glide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 moves	conj
31	along	along	ADV	_	30 glides	advmod
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 wave	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 wave	det
34	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 glides	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 slime	case
36	slime	slime	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 wave	nmod
37	under	under	ADP	_	41 foot	case
38	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 foot	nmod:poss
39	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 foot	nummod
40	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 foot	amod
41	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 wave	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	this soft little animals	no bones	all		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient
2	move	present	a worm				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	squeeze	gerund	a worm not said here				vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	stretch	gerund	a worm not said here	worm's rings			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ring=Patient
5	grip	present	tiny bristles	the soil			vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Experiencer
6	glide	present	a snail		a wave of slime under worm's one big foot	along property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wave=Trajectory
7	wave			slime	worm's one big foot		nom wave «event transitive»: of=patient under=place

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:217-worms-snails-and-slugs.lesson:1.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4. 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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