Chickens, goats and little creatures, sentence 22
A worm cut in half does not become two worms; usually only one part survives, if any.
Who acts: worm, one part · What happens: cut, not become, survive · To what, where: worm, half, two worms
This is a sentence of the lesson «Chickens, goats and little creatures» of the everyday 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, one 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 | 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 Voice=Pass | 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 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 16 survives | advmod |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 survives | advmod |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 part | nummod |
| 15 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 survives | nsubj |
| 16 | survives | survive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 become | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 survives | punct |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 any | mark |
| 19 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 survives | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 become | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 | one part | usually property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:everyday:068-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures.lesson:22.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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