--- title: A slug has four tentacles: the top two carry eyes and the bottom two… — The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes an… · tree and pragmatics description: A slug has four tentacles: the top two carry eyes and the bottom two feel and smell; it can pull them in if touched, and its slime trail helps it slide and find its way home. Who acts: slug, top two, bottom, slime trail. 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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 (slug, top two, bottom, slime trail), 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:15 # text = A slug has four tentacles: the top two carry eyes and the bottom two feel and smell; it can pull them in if touched, and its slime trail helps it slide and find its way home. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 slug slug NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 tentacles tentacle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 top top ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nsubj _ _ 10 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 11 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 16 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 smell smell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 pull pull VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 in in ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:compound:prt 25 if if SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 26 touched touch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 advcl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 29 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 slime slime NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 trail trail NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 slide slide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 conj _ _ 37 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 home home ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **have** | present | a slug | four tentacles | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tentacle=Patient | | 2 | **carry** | present | the top two | eyes | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | | 3 | **feel** | present | the bottom | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **smell** | present | the bottom *not said here* | | | | | | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **pull in** | can | bottom | slugs *= slug* | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 6 | **touch** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle | bottom *not said here* | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **help** | present | bottom's slime trail | bottom | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 8 | **slide** | infinitive | bottom *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **find** | infinitive | bottom *not said here* | bottom's way | | | | home *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | 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. 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