--- title: A garden snail has eyes at the tips of its two long tentacles, which… — Worms, snails and slugs · tree and pragmatics description: A garden snail has eyes at the tips of its two long tentacles, which it pulls in when they are touched; the two short tentacles below are for smell and touch. Who acts: garden snail, soil, two short tentacles. 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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 (garden snail, soil, two short tentacles), 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:12 # text = A garden snail has eyes at the tips of its two long tentacles, which it pulls in when they are touched; the two short tentacles below are for smell and touch. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 snail snail NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 tips tip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 11 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 12 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 tentacles tentacle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 obj _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 pulls pull VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 18 in in ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 touched touch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 advcl _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 26 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 tentacles tentacle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 28 below below ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 touch touch NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | a garden snail | eyes | | the tips of soil's two long tentacles | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | | 2 | **pull in** | present | soil | soil's two long tentacles | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | | 3 | **touch** | present · passive | | snails *= snail* | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | the two short tentacles | | | | | for smell and touch | tree rules | 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:12`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Worms, snails and slugs, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/217-worms-snails-and-slugs/11/) - next →: [Worms, snails and slugs, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/217-worms-snails-and-slugs/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/217-worms-snails-and-slugs/)