Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and hermit crabs, sentence 3
A giant snail rasps through cucumber with a tongue of thousands of tiny teeth.
Who acts: giant snail · What happens: rasp · To what, where: cucumber
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 (giant snail), 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 | 3 snail | det |
| 2 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 snail | amod |
| 3 | snail | snail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rasps | nsubj |
| 4 | rasps | rasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 cucumber | case |
| 6 | cucumber | cucumber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rasps | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 tongue | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tongue | det |
| 9 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rasps | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 thousands | case |
| 11 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tongue | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 teeth | case |
| 13 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 teeth | amod |
| 14 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 thousands | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rasps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rasp | present | a giant snail | cucumber | with a tongue of thousands of tiny teeth | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with tongue=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:330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs.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): R5-strong ×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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs/3/