--- title: A worm's body is made of many rings called segments, and tiny bristl… — Worms, snails and slugs · tree and pragmatics description: A worm's body is made of many rings called segments, and tiny bristles on them grip the soil while the body squeezes and stretches. Who acts: many rings, tiny bristles, body. 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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 (many rings, tiny bristles, body), 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:9 # text = A worm's body is made of many rings called segments, and tiny bristles on them grip the soil while the body squeezes and stretches. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 worm worm NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 rings ring NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 10 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 11 segments segment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obj 12 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 14 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 bristles bristle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nmod _ _ 18 grip grip VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 while while SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 squeezes squeeze VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 stretches stretch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present · passive | | a worm's body | | | | of many rings | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 2 | **call** | participle | many rings *not said here* | segments | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **grip** | present | tiny bristles on segments | the soil | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Experiencer | | 4 | **squeeze** | present | the body | | | | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **stretch** | present | the body *not said here* | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:9`. **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, 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/). - ← previous: [Worms, snails and slugs, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/217-worms-snails-and-slugs/8/) - next →: [Worms, snails and slugs, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/217-worms-snails-and-slugs/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/217-worms-snails-and-slugs/)