Small creatures and creepy-crawlies, sentence 16
Some snails go dormant (shut up still, as if in a deep sleep) for long periods in dry weather, in rare cases even years, waiting for damp conditions.
Who acts: snails · What happens: go, shut up, wait
This is a sentence of the lesson «Small creatures and creepy-crawlies» of the myths 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 (snails), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 snails | det |
| 2 | snails | snail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 go | nsubj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | dormant | dormant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 go | xcomp |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 shut | punct |
| 6 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 dormant | conj |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 shut | compound:prt |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 shut | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sleep | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 sleep | mark |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 sleep | mark |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 sleep | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 sleep | det |
| 14 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sleep | amod |
| 15 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shut | advcl |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 shut | punct |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 periods | case |
| 18 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 periods | amod |
| 19 | periods | period | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 go | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 weather | case |
| 21 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 weather | amod |
| 22 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 periods | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 cases | punct |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 cases | case |
| 25 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 cases | amod |
| 26 | cases | case | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 periods | conj |
| 27 | even | even | ADV | _ | 28 years | advmod |
| 28 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 periods | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 waiting | punct |
| 30 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 go | advcl |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 conditions | case |
| 32 | damp | damp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 conditions | amod |
| 33 | conditions | condition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 waiting | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | some snails | for long periods in dry weather and rare cases and years; dormant property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for period=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | shut up | participle | some snails not said here | still | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | wait | gerund | some snails not said here | for damp conditions | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:myths:009-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies.lesson:16.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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