Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, tentacles, teeth, sentence 11

A snail eats with a radula, a ribbon covered in thousands of tiny teeth, often quoted at about 14,000 for a garden snail, which rasps food like a file.

Who acts: snail, garden snail · What happens: eat, cover, quote, rasp · To what, where: ribbon, 14,000, food

This is a sentence of the lesson «Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, tentacles, teeth» 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 (snail, garden 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	2 snail	det
2	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eats	nsubj
3	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 radula	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 radula	det
6	radula	radula	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eats	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ribbon	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 ribbon	det
9	ribbon	ribbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 radula	appos
10	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 ribbon	acl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 thousands	case
12	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 covered	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 teeth	case
14	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 teeth	amod
15	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 thousands	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 quoted	punct
17	often	often	ADV	_	18 quoted	advmod
18	quoted	quote	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 ribbon	acl
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 14,000	case
20	about	about	ADV	_	21 14,000	advmod
21	14,000	14000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 quoted	obl
22	for	for	ADP	_	25 snail	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 snail	det
24	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 snail	compound
25	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 quoted	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 rasps	punct
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 rasps	nsubj
28	rasps	rasp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 snail	acl:relcl
29	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 rasps	obj
30	like	like	ADP	_	32 file	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 file	det
32	file	file	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 rasps	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 eats	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	eat	present	a snail			with a radula	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cover	participle		a ribbon not said here		in thousands of tiny teeth	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in thousand=Theme
3	quote speech: other	participle		a ribbon not said here	14,000	for a garden snail; often property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	rasp	present	a garden snail	food		like a file	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location food=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:041-counting-animals.lesson:11.

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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