--- title: Moles dig tunnels and push the soil up into molehills; worms fall in… — More builders: caddis cases, paper wasps, moles,… · tree and pragmatics description: Moles dig tunnels and push the soil up into molehills; worms fall into the tunnels and the mole patrols them, and it keeps a larder of worms with bitten heads. Who acts: Moles, worms, mole, nest. 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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 (Moles, worms, mole, nest), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:245-more-builders-caddis-cases-paper-wasps-moles-apes-beds-and-sand-circles.lesson:8 # text = Moles dig tunnels and push the soil up into molehills; worms fall into the tunnels and the mole patrols them, and it keeps a larder of worms with bitten heads. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 245-more-builders-caddis-cases-paper-wasps-moles-apes-beds-and-sand-circles.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): R1-cc-next ×2 1 Moles mole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 dig dig VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 tunnels tunnel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc 5 push push VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 up up ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 9 into into ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 molehills molehill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 worms worm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 fall fall VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 14 into into ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 tunnels tunnel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=13:cc 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 mole mole NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 patrols patrol VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 21 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 larder larder NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 worms worm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 bitten bite VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 amod _ _ 32 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **dig** | present | Moles | tunnels | | | | | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tunnel=Theme | | 2 | **push up** | present | Moles *not said here* | the soil | | molehills | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent soil=Theme into molehill=Destination | | 3 | **fall** | present | worms | | | | | into the tunnels *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into tunnel=Result | | 4 | **patrol** | present | the mole | worms *= worm* | | | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Location | | 5 | **keep** | present | nest | a larder of worms with bitten heads | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent larder=Theme | | 6 | **bite** | participle | | | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | 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:245-more-builders-caddis-cases-paper-wasps-moles-apes-beds-and-sand-circles.lesson:8`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2. **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. 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