The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes and slugs, sentence 13

Slugs feed at night when it is damp, and hedgehogs, thrushes, frogs and beetles eat them.

Who acts: Slugs, tomato, hedgehogs · What happens: feed, be, eat · To what, where: slugs

This is a sentence of the lesson «The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes 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 (Slugs, tomato, hedgehogs), 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	Slugs	slug	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 feed	nsubj
2	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 night	case
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feed	obl
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 damp	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 damp	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 damp	cop
8	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 feed	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 eat	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 eat	cc
11	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 eat	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thrushes	punct
13	thrushes	thrush	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hedgehogs	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 frogs	punct
15	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hedgehogs	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 beetles	cc
17	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hedgehogs	conj
18	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 feed	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 eat	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 feed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	feed	present	Slugs		night		vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	tomato			damp property	tree rules
3	eat	present	hedgehogs and thrushes and frogs and beetles	slugs = slug			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:338-the-vegetable-patch-peas-potatoes-tomatoes-and-slugs.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): no change. 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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