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title: After a night of rain the lawn and the pavement are full of pink ear… — Worms, snails and slugs · tree and pragmatics
description: After a night of rain the lawn and the pavement are full of pink earthworms, and the paths are criss-crossed with the shiny silver trails of snails and slugs. Who acts: lawn. A sentence of the lesson «Worms, snails and slugs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an
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# Worms, snails and slugs, sentence 0

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After a night of rain the lawn and the pavement are full of pink earthworms, and the paths are criss-crossed with the shiny silver trails of snails and slugs.

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**Who acts:** lawn · **What happens:** be, cross · **To what, where:** paths

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Worms, snails 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 (lawn), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:217-worms-snails-and-slugs.lesson:0
# text = After a night of rain the lawn and the pavement are full of pink earthworms, and the paths are criss-crossed with the shiny silver trails of snails and slugs.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 217-worms-snails-and-slugs.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lawn	lawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pavement	pavement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	earthworms	earthworm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	paths	path	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
21	criss	criss	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	compound	_	_
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	_
23	crossed	cross	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	trails	trail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	snails	snail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	slugs	slug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the lawn and the pavement |  |  |  | night | of pink earthworms; full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cross** | present · passive |  | the paths |  |  |  | with the shiny silver trails of snails and slugs | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:217-worms-snails-and-slugs.lesson:0`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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