--- title: A snail in a 10-metre well that climbs 3 metres each day and slides… — Sounds wrong, but is right · tree and pragmatics description: A snail in a 10-metre well that climbs 3 metres each day and slides 2 each night is 7 metres up after 7 days and nights, and climbs out on day 8. Who acts: metre well, 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 (metre well, snail), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right.lesson:13 # text = A snail in a 10-metre well that climbs 3 metres each day and slides 2 each night is 7 metres up after 7 days and nights, and climbs out on day 8. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 snail snail NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:root 3 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 5 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 7 metre metre NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 well well NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 climbs climb VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 14 det _ _ 14 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl:unmarked _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 slides slide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 17 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 obj _ _ 18 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 19 det _ _ 19 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl:unmarked _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 21 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl:unmarked _ _ 23 up up ADV RB _ 0 root _ _ 24 after after ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 nights night NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 climbs climb VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 32 out out ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 on on ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 34 flat _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 23 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 | **climb** | present | a metre well | 3 metres | | | day | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location metre=Theme | | 2 | **slide** | present | a metre well *not said here* | 2 | | | night | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 2=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | a snail in a metre well | | | | day | 7 metres *obl:unmarked*; up *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **climb out** | present | a snail in a metre well *not said here* | | | | day | out *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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:world:182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right.lesson:13`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1. **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: [Sounds wrong, but is right, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right/12/) - next →: [Sounds wrong, but is right, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right/)