Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and hermit crabs, sentence 13
Snails have a ribbon-shaped tongue covered in thousands of tiny teeth that wear down and are replaced by new rows, and some snails have over 10,000 teeth.
Who acts: Snails, tiny teeth, new rows · What happens: have, shape, cover, wear down, replace, have over · To what, where: shaped tongue, 10,000 teeth
This is a sentence of the lesson «Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and hermit crabs» 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, tiny teeth, new rows), 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 | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tongue | det |
| 4 | ribbon | ribbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shaped | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 shaped | punct |
| 6 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 tongue | amod |
| 7 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| 8 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 tongue | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 thousands | case |
| 10 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 covered | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 teeth | case |
| 12 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 teeth | amod |
| 13 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 thousands | nmod |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 wear | nsubj |
| 15 | wear | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 teeth | acl:relcl |
| 16 | down | down | ADV | _ | 15 wear | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 replaced | cc |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 replaced | aux:pass |
| 19 | replaced | replace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 wear | conj |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 rows | case |
| 21 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 rows | amod |
| 22 | rows | row | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 replaced | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 have | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 have | cc |
| 25 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 snails | det |
| 26 | snails | snail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 have | nsubj |
| 27 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | conj |
| 28 | over | over | ADV | _ | 29 10,000 | advmod |
| 29 | 10,000 | 10000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 teeth | nummod |
| 30 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 have | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Snails | a shaped tongue | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Patient | ||||
| 2 | shape | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 3 | cover | participle | a shaped tongue not said here | in thousands of tiny teeth | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in thousand=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wear down | present | tiny teeth | down property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | replace | present · passive | new rows | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | have over | present | some snails | 10,000 teeth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=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:330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs.lesson:13.
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): R5-strong ×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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