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title: Worms come up when the ground is wet and can dry out on paths; they… — Chickens, goats and little creatures · tree and pragmatics
description: Worms come up when the ground is wet and can dry out on paths; they keep soil healthy. Who acts: Worms, ground. A sentence of the lesson «Chickens, goats and little creatures» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Chickens, goats and little creatures, sentence 21

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Worms come up when the ground is wet and can dry out on paths; they keep soil healthy.

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**Who acts:** Worms, ground · **What happens:** come up, be, dry out, keep · **To what, where:** paths, soil

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Chickens, goats and little creatures» of the everyday 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 (Worms, ground), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:068-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures.lesson:21
# text = Worms come up when the ground is wet and can dry out on paths; they keep soil healthy.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 068-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures.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	Worms	worm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	dry	dry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	paths	path	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
18	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	healthy	healthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
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 | **come up** | present | Worms |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | the ground |  |  |  |  | wet *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **dry out** | can | the ground *not said here* |  |  | paths |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **keep** | present | worms *= worm* | soil |  |  |  | healthy *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Theme |

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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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**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:everyday:068-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures.lesson:21`.

**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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