Worms, snails and slugs, sentence 10

A snail glides on a layer of slime that helps it grip and slide, even upside down on a leaf, and leaves a shiny trail behind.

Who acts: snail, layer, soil · What happens: glide, help, grip, slide, leave · To what, where: upside, layer, soil, shiny trail

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 (snail, layer, soil), 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	2 snail	det
2	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 glides	nsubj
3	glides	glide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 layer	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 layer	det
6	layer	layer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 glides	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 slime	case
8	slime	slime	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 layer	nmod
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 helps	nsubj
10	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 layer	acl:relcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 helps	obj
12	grip	grip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 helps	xcomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 slide	cc
14	slide	slide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 grip	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 upside	punct
16	even	even	ADV	_	17 upside	advmod
17	upside	upside	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 glides	obl:unmarked
18	down	down	ADP	_	17 upside	compound:prt
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 leaf	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 leaf	det
21	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 upside	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 leaves	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 leaves	cc
24	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 glides	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 trail	det
26	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 trail	amod
27	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 leaves	obj
28	behind	behind	ADV	_	24 leaves	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 glides	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	glide	present	a snail	upside on a leaf	a layer of slime		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on layer=Trajectory
2	help	present	a layer of slime	soil			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	grip	infinitive	soil not said here				vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	slide	infinitive	soil not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	leave	present	a snail not said here	a shiny trail		behind property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trail=Theme

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:10.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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