Worms, snails and slugs, sentence 7
An earthworm has no eyes and no lungs; it breathes through its moist skin and can sense light with its skin.
Who acts: earthworm, worm · What happens: have, breathe, sense · To what, where: eyes, moist skin, light
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 (earthworm, worm), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 earthworm | det |
| 2 | earthworm | earthworm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 eyes | det |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 lungs | cc |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 lungs | det |
| 8 | lungs | lung | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 eyes | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 breathes | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 breathes | nsubj |
| 11 | breathes | breathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | parataxis |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 skin | case |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 skin | nmod:poss |
| 14 | moist | moist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 skin | amod |
| 15 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 breathes | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sense | cc |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 sense | aux |
| 18 | sense | sense | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 breathes | conj |
| 19 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sense | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 skin | case |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 skin | nmod:poss |
| 22 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sense | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | 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 | have | present | a earthworm | no eyes and no lungs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 2 | breathe | present | worm | worm's moist skin | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sense | can | worm not said here | light | with worm's skin | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus |
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:7.
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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