More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcupine arrows, toads and falling cats, sentence 11

Cutting an earthworm in half does not make two worms; sometimes the front part survives and regrows a tail, but the back part usually dies.

Who acts: Cutting, front part, back part · What happens: cut, not make, survive, regrow, die · To what, where: earthworm, half, two worms, tail

This is a sentence of the lesson «More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcupine arrows, toads and falling cats» of the biology 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 (Cutting, front part, back part), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cutting	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 make	csubj
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 earthworm	det
3	earthworm	earthworm	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cutting	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 half	case
5	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	1 Cutting	obl
6	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 make	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 make	advmod
8	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 worms	nummod
10	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 make	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 survives	punct
12	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	16 survives	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 part	det
14	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 part	amod
15	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 survives	nsubj
16	survives	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 make	parataxis
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 regrows	cc
18	regrows	regrow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 survives	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 tail	det
20	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 regrows	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 dies	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 dies	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 part	det
24	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 part	compound
25	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dies	nsubj
26	usually	usually	ADV	_	27 dies	advmod
27	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 survives	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 make	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cut	gerund		a earthworm	half		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset earthworm=Product
2	not make	present · do-support	Cutting	two worms			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset worm=Product
3	survive	present	the front part			sometimes property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	regrow	present	the front part not said here	a tail			tree rules
5	die	present	the back part			usually property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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, 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:154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons.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): 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.

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