--- title: At night the slugs come out, gliding on their slime and nibbling hol… — The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes an… · tree and pragmatics description: At night the slugs come out, gliding on their slime and nibbling holes in the lettuce, while a bumblebee hums loudly on a tomato flower in the day, shaking the pollen out like salt from a salt cellar. Who acts: slugs, bumblebee. 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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 (slugs, bumblebee), 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:2 # text = At night the slugs come out, gliding on their slime and nibbling holes in the lettuce, while a bumblebee hums loudly on a tomato flower in the day, shaking the pollen out like salt from a salt cellar. # 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 ×3 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 slugs slug NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 out out ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 gliding glide VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 slime slime NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 nibbling nibble VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 conj _ _ 14 holes hole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 lettuce lettuce NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 while while SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:det 21 bumblebee bumblebee NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 hums hum VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 23 loudly loudly ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 tomato tomato NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 shaking shake VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advcl 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 pollen pollen NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 out out ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 36 like like ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 38 from from ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 cellar cellar NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:obl 42 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come out** | present | the slugs | | | | night | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **glide** | gerund | the slugs *not said here* | | | slugs's slime | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on slime=Trajectory | | 3 | **nibble** | gerund | the slugs *not said here* | holes | | the lettuce | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient | | 4 | **hum** | present | a bumblebee | | | a tomato flower | day | loudly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on flower=Location | | 5 | **shake out** | gerund | a bumblebee *not said here* | the pollen | | | | like salt from a salt cellar | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent pollen=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. 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