Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food, sentence 15

Cutting a worm in half usually kills it; sometimes the head end heals and survives, but the tail end cannot grow a new head, and it is cruel to try.

Who acts: Cutting, head end, tail end, it · What happens: cut, kill, heal, survive, not grow, be · To what, where: worm, half, new head

This is a sentence of the lesson «Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food» 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, head end, tail end, it), 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	7 kills	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 worm	det
3	worm	worm	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	usually	usually	ADV	_	7 kills	advmod
7	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 kills	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 heals	punct
10	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 heals	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 end	det
12	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 end	compound
13	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 heals	nsubj
14	heals	heal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 kills	parataxis
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 survives	cc
16	survives	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 heals	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 grow	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 grow	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 end	det
20	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 end	compound
21	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 grow	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 grow	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 grow	advmod
24	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 heals	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 head	det
26	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 head	amod
27	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 grow	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 cruel	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 cruel	cc
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 cruel	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 cruel	cop
32	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 kills	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 try	mark
34	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 cruel	csubj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 kills	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cut	gerund		a worm	half		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset worm=Product
2	kill	present	Cutting	half		usually property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	heal	present	the head end			sometimes property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	survive	present	the head end not said here				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not grow	can	the tail end	a new head			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme
6	is	present	it			cruel property	tree rules
7	try	to-infinitive					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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:291-bees-worms-and-soil-the-hidden-helpers-of-our-food.lesson:15.

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 ×2, 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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