The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes and slugs, sentence 2

At night the slugs come out, gliding on their slime and nibbling holes in the lettuce, while a bumblebee hums loudly on a tomato flower in the day, shaking the pollen out like salt from a salt cellar.

Who acts: slugs, bumblebee · What happens: come out, glide, nibble, hum, shake out · To what, where: slime, holes, lettuce, tomato flower, pollen

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, bumblebee), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 night	case
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 slugs	det
4	slugs	slug	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 come	nsubj
5	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 gliding	punct
8	gliding	glide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 come	advcl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 slime	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 slime	nmod:poss
11	slime	slime	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gliding	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 nibbling	cc
13	nibbling	nibble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 gliding	conj
14	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 nibbling	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 lettuce	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 lettuce	det
17	lettuce	lettuce	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 nibbling	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hums	punct
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	22 hums	mark
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 bumblebee	det
21	bumblebee	bumblebee	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hums	nsubj
22	hums	hum	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 come	advcl
23	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	22 hums	advmod
24	on	on	ADP	_	27 flower	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 flower	det
26	tomato	tomato	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 flower	compound
27	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hums	obl
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 day	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 day	det
30	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hums	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 shaking	punct
32	shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 hums	advcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 pollen	det
34	pollen	pollen	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 shaking	obj
35	out	out	ADP	_	32 shaking	compound:prt
36	like	like	ADP	_	37 salt	case
37	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 shaking	obl
38	from	from	ADP	_	41 cellar	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 cellar	det
40	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 cellar	compound
41	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 salt	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	present	the slugs			night	out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
2	glide	gerund	the slugs not said here		slugs's slime			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on slime=Trajectory
3	nibble	gerund	the slugs not said here	holes	the lettuce			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient
4	hum	present	a bumblebee		a tomato flower	day	loudly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on flower=Location
5	shake out	gerund	a bumblebee not said here	the pollen			like salt from a salt cellar	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent pollen=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:2.

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 ×3. 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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