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title: A worm has no legs, and a snail or slug has one wide muscly foot ins… — Worms, snails and slugs · tree and pragmatics
description: A worm has no legs, and a snail or slug has one wide muscly foot instead of legs. Who acts: worm, snail. 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 clause.
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# Worms, snails and slugs, sentence 16

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A worm has no legs, and a snail or slug has one wide muscly foot instead of legs.

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**Who acts:** worm, snail · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** legs, one wide muscly foot

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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 (worm, 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:16
# text = A worm has no legs, and a snail or slug has one wide muscly foot instead of legs.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	worm	worm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	snail	snail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	slug	slug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
14	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	_	16	amod	_	_
15	muscly	muscly	ADJ	JJ	_	16	amod	_	_
16	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
17	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	19	case	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## 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 | **have** | present | a worm | no legs |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | present | a snail or slug | one wide muscly foot |  |  |  | instead legs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=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:16`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×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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