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title: A slug is like a snail without an outside shell; it hides in damp, d… — Worms, snails and slugs · tree and pragmatics
description: A slug is like a snail without an outside shell; it hides in damp, dark places by day and comes out at night or in rain. Who acts: slug, shell. 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 claus
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# Worms, snails and slugs, sentence 14

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A slug is like a snail without an outside shell; it hides in damp, dark places by day and comes out at night or in rain.

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**Who acts:** slug, shell · **What happens:** be, hide, come out · **To what, where:** damp dark places

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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 (slug, shell), 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:14
# text = A slug is like a snail without an outside shell; it hides in damp, dark places by day and comes out at night or in rain.
# 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	2	det	_	_
2	slug	slug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	snail	snail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	without	without	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	outside	outside	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	hides	hide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	damp	damp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is** | present | a slug |  |  |  |  | like a snail; without a outside shell | tree rules |
| 2 | **hide** | present | shell |  |  | damp dark places | day |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location |
| 3 | **come out** | present | shell *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: 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:14`.

**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/).

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