Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, elephants and mice, ostriches and more, sentence 15
Cutting an earthworm in half does not make two worms; sometimes the front part regrows a tail, but the back part usually dies, while some flatworms can regrow from many small pieces.
Who acts: Cutting, front part, back part, flatworms · What happens: cut, not make, regrow, die · To what, where: earthworm, half, two worms, tail, many small pieces
This is a sentence of the lesson «Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, elephants and mice, ostriches and more» 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, flatworms), 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 regrows | punct |
| 12 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 16 regrows | 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 regrows | nsubj |
| 16 | regrows | regrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 make | parataxis |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 tail | det |
| 18 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 regrows | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 dies | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 dies | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 part | det |
| 22 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 part | compound |
| 23 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 dies | nsubj |
| 24 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 25 dies | advmod |
| 25 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 regrows | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 regrow | punct |
| 27 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 31 regrow | mark |
| 28 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 flatworms | det |
| 29 | flatworms | flatworm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 regrow | nsubj |
| 30 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 regrow | aux |
| 31 | regrow | regrow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 dies | advcl |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 pieces | case |
| 33 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 pieces | amod |
| 34 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 pieces | amod |
| 35 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 regrow | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 | regrow | present | the front part | a tail | sometimes property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | die | present | the back part | usually property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | regrow | can | some flatworms | many small pieces | tree rules |
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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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): R5-strong ×1, 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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