Worms, snails and slugs, sentence 13
A snail eats with a ribbon covered in thousands of tiny teeth that scrapes food like a file.
Who acts: snail, tiny teeth · What happens: eat, cover, scrape · To what, where: ribbon, food
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, tiny teeth), 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 eats | nsubj |
| 3 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 ribbon | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ribbon | det |
| 6 | ribbon | ribbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eats | obl |
| 7 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 ribbon | acl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 thousands | case |
| 9 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 covered | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 teeth | case |
| 11 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 teeth | amod |
| 12 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 thousands | nmod |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 scrapes | nsubj |
| 14 | scrapes | scrape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 teeth | acl:relcl |
| 15 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 scrapes | obj |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 file | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 file | det |
| 18 | file | file | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 scrapes | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 eats | 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 | eat | present | a snail | with a ribbon | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | cover | participle | a ribbon not said here | in thousands of tiny teeth | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in thousand=Theme | ||||
| 3 | scrape | present | tiny teeth | food | like a file | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=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:13.
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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