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title: Slugs feed at night when it is damp, and hedgehogs, thrushes, frogs… — The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Slugs feed at night when it is damp, and hedgehogs, thrushes, frogs and beetles eat them. Who acts: Slugs, tomato, hedgehogs. A sentence of the lesson «The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes and slugs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes and slugs, sentence 13

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Slugs feed at night when it is damp, and hedgehogs, thrushes, frogs and beetles eat them.

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**Who acts:** Slugs, tomato, hedgehogs · **What happens:** feed, be, eat · **To what, where:** slugs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes 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 (Slugs, tomato, hedgehogs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:338-the-vegetable-patch-peas-potatoes-tomatoes-and-slugs.lesson:13
# text = Slugs feed at night when it is damp, and hedgehogs, thrushes, frogs and beetles eat them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 338-the-vegetable-patch-peas-potatoes-tomatoes-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): no change
1	Slugs	slug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	feed	feed	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	damp	damp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	thrushes	thrush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	beetles	beetle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
18	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **feed** | present | Slugs |  |  |  | night |  | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | tomato |  |  |  |  | damp *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **eat** | present | hedgehogs and thrushes and frogs and beetles | slugs *= slug* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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**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): no change. **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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