More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcupine arrows, toads and falling cats, sentence 3

Playground myths work the same way: touching a toad does not give you warts, a bird will not abandon a chick you touched, and cutting a worm in half does not make two worms.

Who acts: Playground myths, touching, bird, you, cutting · What happens: work, touch, not give, not abandon, cut, not make · To what, where: same way, toad, warts, you, chick, worm

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 (Playground myths, touching, bird, you), 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	Playground	playground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 myths	compound
2	myths	myth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 work	nsubj
3	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 way	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 way	amod
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 work	obj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 give	punct
8	touching	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 give	csubj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 toad	det
10	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 touching	obj
11	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 give	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 give	advmod
13	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 work	parataxis
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 give	iobj
15	warts	wart	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 give	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 abandon	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 bird	det
18	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 abandon	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 abandon	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 abandon	advmod
21	abandon	abandon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 give	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 chick	det
23	chick	chick	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 abandon	obj
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 touched	nsubj
25	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 chick	acl:relcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 make	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 make	cc
28	cutting	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 make	csubj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 worm	det
30	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cutting	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 half	case
32	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	28 cutting	obl
33	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 make	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 make	advmod
35	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 give	conj
36	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 worms	nummod
37	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 make	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 work	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	work	present	Playground myths	the same way			vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent way=Material
2	touch	gerund		a toad			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme toad=Co-Theme
3	not give	present · do-support	touching	warts	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient wart=Theme
4	not abandon	future	a bird	a chick			vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme chick=Source
5	touch	past	you	a chick not said here			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme chick=Co-Theme
6	cut	gerund		a worm		half	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset worm=Product
7	not make	present · do-support	cutting	two worms			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset worm=Product

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:3.

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): R6-punct-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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