Worms, snails and slugs, sentence 11
A snail hides in its shell for protection, and in dry weather or winter it can seal the opening with a door of dried slime.
Who acts: snail, soil · What happens: hide, seal, dry · To what, where: shell, opening, dry weather
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, 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 hides | nsubj |
| 3 | hides | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 shell | case |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 shell | nmod:poss |
| 6 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hides | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 protection | case |
| 8 | protection | protection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hides | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 seal | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 seal | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 weather | case |
| 12 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 weather | amod |
| 13 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seal | obl |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 winter | cc |
| 15 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 weather | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 seal | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 seal | aux |
| 18 | seal | seal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hides | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 opening | det |
| 20 | opening | open | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seal | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 door | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 door | det |
| 23 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seal | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 slime | case |
| 25 | dried | dry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 slime | amod |
| 26 | slime | slime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 door | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hides | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | present | a snail | soil's shell | for protection | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in shell=Location | |||
| 2 | seal | can | soil | the opening | dry weather or winter | with a door of dried slime | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent open=Patient with door=Instrument | ||
| 3 | dry | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: 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:217-worms-snails-and-slugs.lesson:11.
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): 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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