Worms, snails and slugs, sentence 4

Snails and slugs nibble our lettuces with thousands of tiny teeth, but they are food for thrushes, hedgehogs and frogs, so a garden needs them too.

Who acts: Snails, garden · What happens: nibble, be, need · To what, where: lettuces, food, snails

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 (Snails, garden), 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	Snails	snail	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 nibble	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 slugs	cc
3	slugs	slug	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Snails	conj
4	nibble	nibble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 lettuces	nmod:poss
6	lettuces	lettuce	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 nibble	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 thousands	case
8	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 nibble	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 teeth	case
10	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 teeth	amod
11	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 thousands	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 food	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 food	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 food	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 food	cop
16	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nibble	conj
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 thrushes	case
18	thrushes	thrush	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 food	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hedgehogs	punct
20	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 thrushes	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 frogs	cc
22	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 thrushes	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 needs	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	27 needs	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 garden	det
26	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 needs	nsubj
27	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 food	conj
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 needs	obj
29	too	too	ADV	_	27 needs	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 nibble	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	nibble	present	Snails and slugs	our lettuces	with thousands of tiny teeth	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lettuce=Patient
2	is a	present	snails = snail	food	for thrushes and hedgehogs and frogs	tree rules
3	need	present	a garden	snails = snail		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme

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:4.

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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