Worms, snails and slugs, sentence 6

A worm cut in half does not become two worms; sometimes the head end survives and grows a new tail, but the tail end usually dies.

Who acts: worm, head end, tail end · What happens: cut, not become, survive, grow, die · To what, where: worm, half, two worms, new tail

This is a sentence of the lesson «Worms, snails and slugs» 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 (worm, head end, tail end), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 worm	det
2	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 become	nsubj
3	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 worm	acl
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 half	case
5	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	3 cut	obl
6	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 become	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 become	advmod
8	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 worms	nummod
10	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 become	xcomp
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 survives	punct
12	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	16 survives	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 end	det
14	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 end	compound
15	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 survives	nsubj
16	survives	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 become	parataxis
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 grows	cc
18	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 survives	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 tail	det
20	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tail	amod
21	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 grows	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 dies	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 dies	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 end	det
25	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 end	compound
26	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 dies	nsubj
27	usually	usually	ADV	_	28 dies	advmod
28	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 survives	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 become	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cut	participle		a worm not said here	half		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	not become	present · do-support	a worm	two worms			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	survive	present	the head end			sometimes property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	grow	present	the head end not said here	a new tail			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tail=Theme
5	die	present	the tail end			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:217-worms-snails-and-slugs.lesson:6.

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, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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