--- title: These soft little animals have no bones at all: a worm moves by sque… — Worms, snails and slugs · tree and pragmatics description: These soft little animals have no bones at all: a worm moves by squeezing and stretching its rings while tiny bristles grip the soil, and a snail glides along on a wave of slime under its one big foot. Who acts: soft little animals, worm, tiny bristles, snail. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soft little animals, worm, tiny bristles, snail), 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:1 # text = These soft little animals have no bones at all: a worm moves by squeezing and stretching its rings while tiny bristles grip the soil, and a snail glides along on a wave of slime under its one big foot. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4 1 These this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 4 det _ _ 2 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 7 det _ _ 7 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 7 nmod _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:det 12 worm worm NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:compound 13 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 14 by by SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 15 squeezing squeeze VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:obl|HaikuPos=VERB:NN:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 stretching stretch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 conj _ _ 18 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 rings ring NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 while while SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 bristles bristle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 grip grip VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 snail snail NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:compound 30 glides glide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 31 along along ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 on on ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 wave wave NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 slime slime NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 37 under under ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 38 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 39 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 41 nummod _ _ 40 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | this soft little animals | no bones | | all | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient | | 2 | **move** | present | a worm | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **squeeze** | gerund | a worm *not said here* | | | | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **stretch** | gerund | a worm *not said here* | worm's rings | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ring=Patient | | 5 | **grip** | present | tiny bristles | the soil | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Experiencer | | 6 | **glide** | present | a snail | | | a wave of slime under worm's one big foot | | along *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wave=Trajectory | | 7 | **wave** | | | slime | | worm's one big foot | | | nom wave «event transitive»: of=patient under=place | 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](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:1`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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/). - ← previous: [Worms, snails and slugs, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/217-worms-snails-and-slugs/0/) - next →: [Worms, snails and slugs, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/217-worms-snails-and-slugs/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/217-worms-snails-and-slugs/)