Worms, snails and slugs, sentence 14

A slug is like a snail without an outside shell; it hides in damp, dark places by day and comes out at night or in rain.

Who acts: slug, shell · What happens: be, hide, come out · To what, where: damp dark places

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 (slug, shell), 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 slug	det
2	slug	slug	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 snail	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 snail	cop
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 snail	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 snail	det
6	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	without	without	ADP	_	10 shell	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 shell	det
9	outside	outside	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 shell	amod
10	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 snail	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 hides	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hides	nsubj
13	hides	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 snail	parataxis
14	in	in	ADP	_	18 places	case
15	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 places	amod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 damp	punct
17	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 places	amod
18	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hides	obl
19	by	by	ADP	_	20 day	case
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hides	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 comes	cc
22	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 hides	conj
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 comes	compound:prt
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 night	case
25	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 comes	obl
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 rain	cc
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 rain	case
28	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 night	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 snail	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a slug			like a snail; without a outside shell	tree rules
2	hide	present	shell	damp dark places	day		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location
3	come out	present	shell not said here		night		vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: 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:14.

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): R7-rel-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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