--- title: A snail eats with a radula, a ribbon covered in thousands of tiny te… — Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, te… · tree and pragmatics description: A snail eats with a radula, a ribbon covered in thousands of tiny teeth, often quoted at about 14,000 for a garden snail, which rasps food like a file. Who acts: snail, garden snail. 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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 (snail, garden snail), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:041-counting-animals.lesson:11 # text = A snail eats with a radula, a ribbon covered in thousands of tiny teeth, often quoted at about 14,000 for a garden snail, which rasps food like a file. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 041-counting-animals.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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 snail snail NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 radula radula NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 ribbon ribbon NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 10 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 often often ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 quoted quote VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 about about ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 14,000 14000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 obl _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 snail snail NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 rasps rasp VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 29 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 30 like like ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 file file NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | present | a snail | | | | | with a radula | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **cover** | participle | | a ribbon *not said here* | | | | in thousands of tiny teeth | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in thousand=Theme | | 3 | **quote** *speech: other* | participle | | a ribbon *not said here* | | 14,000 | | for a garden snail; often *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **rasp** | present | a garden snail | food | | | | like a file | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location food=Theme | 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:041-counting-animals.lesson:11`. **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/). - ← previous: [Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts,…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/41-counting-animals/10/) - next →: [Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts,…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/41-counting-animals/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/41-counting-animals/)