The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes and slugs, sentence 15
A slug has four tentacles: the top two carry eyes and the bottom two feel and smell; it can pull them in if touched, and its slime trail helps it slide and find its way home.
Who acts: slug, top two, bottom, slime trail · What happens: have, carry, feel, smell, pull in, touch · To what, where: four tentacles, eyes, slugs, bottom, way
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 (slug, top two, bottom, slime trail), 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 slug | det |
| 2 | slug | slug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 tentacles | nummod |
| 5 | tentacles | tentacle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 two | det |
| 8 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 two | amod |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 carry | nsubj |
| 10 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | parataxis |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 carry | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bottom | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bottom | det |
| 14 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 feel | nsubj |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 bottom | nummod |
| 16 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 carry | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 smell | cc |
| 18 | smell | smell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 feel | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 pull | punct |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 pull | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 pull | aux |
| 22 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 has | parataxis |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 pull | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 pull | compound:prt |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 touched | mark |
| 26 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 pull | advcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 helps | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 helps | cc |
| 29 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 trail | nmod:poss |
| 30 | slime | slime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 trail | compound |
| 31 | trail | trail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 helps | nsubj |
| 32 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 pull | conj |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 helps | obj |
| 34 | slide | slide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 helps | xcomp |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 find | cc |
| 36 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 slide | conj |
| 37 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 way | nmod:poss |
| 38 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 find | obj |
| 39 | home | home | ADV | _ | 36 find | advmod |
| 40 | . | . | 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 slug | four tentacles | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tentacle=Patient | ||||
| 2 | carry | present | the top two | eyes | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | ||||
| 3 | feel | present | the bottom | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | smell | present | the bottom not said here | vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | pull in | can | bottom | slugs = slug | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 6 | touch a condition, not said to happen | participle | bottom not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | help | present | bottom's slime trail | bottom | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 8 | slide | infinitive | bottom not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | find | infinitive | bottom not said here | bottom's way | home property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
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:15.
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.
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