Sounds wrong, but is right, sentence 13

A snail in a 10-metre well that climbs 3 metres each day and slides 2 each night is 7 metres up after 7 days and nights, and climbs out on day 8.

Who acts: metre well, snail · What happens: climb, slide, be, climb out · To what, where: 3 metres, 2

This is a sentence of the lesson «Sounds wrong, but is right» of the world 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 (metre well, 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	23 up	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	8 well	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 well	det
5	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 metre	nummod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 10	punct
7	metre	metre	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 well	compound
8	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 snail	nmod
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 climbs	nsubj
10	climbs	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 well	acl:relcl
11	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 metres	nummod
12	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 climbs	obj
13	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	14 day	det
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 climbs	obl:unmarked
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 slides	cc
16	slides	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 climbs	conj
17	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 slides	obj
18	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	19 night	det
19	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 slides	obl:unmarked
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 up	cop
21	7	7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	22 metres	nummod
22	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 up	obl:unmarked
23	up	up	ADV	_	root	root
24	after	after	ADP	_	26 days	case
25	7	7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	26 days	nummod
26	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 up	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 nights	cc
28	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 days	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 climbs	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 climbs	cc
31	climbs	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 up	conj
32	out	out	ADV	_	31 climbs	advmod
33	on	on	ADP	_	34 day	case
34	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 climbs	obl
35	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	34 day	flat
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 up	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	climb	present	a metre well	3 metres	day		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location metre=Theme
2	slide	present	a metre well not said here	2	night		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 2=Agent
3	is	present	a snail in a metre well		day	7 metres obl:unmarked; up property	tree rules
4	climb out	present	a snail in a metre well not said here		day	out property	vn run-51.3.2 «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:world:182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right.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): 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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