Worms, snails and slugs, sentence 9

A worm's body is made of many rings called segments, and tiny bristles on them grip the soil while the body squeezes and stretches.

Who acts: many rings, tiny bristles, body · What happens: make, call, grip, squeeze, stretch · To what, where: body, segments, soil · 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 (many rings, tiny bristles, body), 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 worm	det
2	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 body	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 worm	case
4	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 made	aux:pass
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 rings	case
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 rings	amod
9	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 made	obl
10	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 rings	acl
11	segments	segment	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 called	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 grip	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 grip	cc
14	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 bristles	amod
15	bristles	bristle	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 grip	nsubj
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 bristles	nmod
18	grip	grip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 made	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 soil	det
20	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 grip	obj
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	24 squeezes	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 body	det
23	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 squeezes	nsubj
24	squeezes	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 grip	advcl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 stretches	cc
26	stretches	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 squeezes	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		a worm's body	of many rings	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	call	participle	many rings not said here	segments		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	grip	present	tiny bristles on segments	the soil		vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Experiencer
4	squeeze	present	the body			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
5	stretch	present	the body not said here			vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: 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:9.

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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