Worms, snails and slugs, sentence 15

A song thrush smashes snails on a favourite stone, called its anvil, to crack the shell; broken shells pile up around it.

Who acts: song thrush, favourite stone, broken shells · What happens: smash, call, crack, break, pile up · To what, where: snails, favourite stone, anvil, shell · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (song thrush, favourite stone, broken shells), 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	3 thrush	det
2	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thrush	compound
3	thrush	thrush	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 smashes	nsubj
4	smashes	smash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	snails	snail	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 smashes	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 stone	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 stone	det
8	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stone	amod
9	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 smashes	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 called	punct
11	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 stone	acl
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 anvil	nmod:poss
13	anvil	anvil	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 called	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 crack	punct
15	to	to	PART	_	16 crack	mark
16	crack	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 smashes	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 shell	det
18	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 crack	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 pile	punct
20	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 shells	amod
21	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 pile	nsubj
22	pile	pile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 smashes	parataxis
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 pile	compound:prt
24	around	around	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 pile	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 smashes	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	smash	present	a song thrush	snails	a favourite stone	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent snail=Theme on stone=Destination
2	call	participle	a favourite stone not said here	stone's anvil		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	crack	to-infinitive	a song thrush not said here	the shell		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shell=Theme
4	break	participle				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	pile up	present	broken shells		anvil	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme around it=Destination

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:15.

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, 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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