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title: A snail hides in its shell for protection, and in dry weather or win… — Worms, snails and slugs · tree and pragmatics
description: A snail hides in its shell for protection, and in dry weather or winter it can seal the opening with a door of dried slime. Who acts: snail, soil. A sentence of the lesson «Worms, snails and slugs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Worms, snails and slugs, sentence 11

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A snail hides in its shell for protection, and in dry weather or winter it can seal the opening with a door of dried slime.

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**Who acts:** snail, soil · **What happens:** hide, seal, dry · **To what, where:** shell, opening, dry weather

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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 (snail, soil), 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:11
# text = A snail hides in its shell for protection, and in dry weather or winter it can seal the opening with a door of dried slime.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	snail	snail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hides	hide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	seal	seal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	opening	open	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
26	slime	slime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | present | a snail |  |  | soil's shell |  | for protection | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in shell=Location |
| 2 | **seal** | can | soil | the opening |  | dry weather or winter |  | with a door of dried slime | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent open=Patient with door=Instrument |
| 3 | **dry** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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: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): R8-pos-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.

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

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