Worms, snails and slugs, sentence 3
Worms are the gardener's best friends: they pull dead leaves down into their burrows, eat them with soil and leave rich crumbly droppings, so a field full of worms is a field full of good soil.
Who acts: Worms, friends, field · What happens: be, pull, eat, leave · To what, where: best friends, dead leaves, friends, rich crumbly droppings, field
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 (Worms, friends, field), 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 | Worms | worm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 friends | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 friends | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 gardener | det |
| 4 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 friends | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 gardener | case |
| 6 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 friends | amod |
| 7 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 pull | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 pull | nsubj |
| 10 | pull | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 friends | parataxis |
| 11 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 leaves | amod |
| 12 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 pull | obj |
| 13 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 pull | advmod |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 burrows | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 burrows | nmod:poss |
| 16 | burrows | burrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 down | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 eat | punct |
| 18 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 pull | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 eat | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 soil | case |
| 21 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 eat | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 leave | cc |
| 23 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 pull | conj |
| 24 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 droppings | amod |
| 25 | crumbly | crumbly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 droppings | amod |
| 26 | droppings | dropping | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 leave | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 field | punct |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 36 field | advmod |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 field | det |
| 30 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 field | nsubj |
| 31 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 field | amod |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 worms | case |
| 33 | worms | worm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 full | obl |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 field | cop |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 field | det |
| 36 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 friends | conj |
| 37 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 field | amod |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 soil | case |
| 39 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 soil | amod |
| 40 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 full | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 friends | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed polarity=pos
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Worms | the gardener's best friends and a field | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pull | present | friends = friend | dead leaves | down property | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme | |||
| 3 | eat | present | friends = friend not said here | friends = friend | with soil | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 4 | leave | present | friends = friend not said here | rich crumbly droppings | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dropping=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | a field | a field | tree rules |
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:3.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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