--- title: Snails have a ribbon-shaped tongue covered in thousands of tiny teet… — Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant f… · tree and pragmatics description: Snails have a ribbon-shaped tongue covered in thousands of tiny teeth that wear down and are replaced by new rows, and some snails have over 10,000 teeth. Who acts: Snails, tiny teeth, new rows. 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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 (Snails, tiny teeth, new rows), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs.lesson:13 # text = Snails have a ribbon-shaped tongue covered in thousands of tiny teeth that wear down and are replaced by new rows, and some snails have over 10,000 teeth. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs.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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Snails snail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 4 ribbon ribbon NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 6 shaped shape VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 7 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 8 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 wear wear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 16 down down ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 replaced replace VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj 20 by by ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 rows row NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 26 det _ _ 26 snails snail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 28 over over ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 10,000 10000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Snails | a shaped tongue | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Patient | | 2 | **shape** | participle | | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **cover** | participle | | a shaped tongue *not said here* | | | | in thousands of tiny teeth | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in thousand=Theme | | 4 | **wear down** | present | tiny teeth | | | | | down *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **replace** | present · passive | new rows | | | | | | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **have over** | present | some snails | 10,000 teeth | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=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:330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs.lesson:13`. **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): R5-strong ×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. 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