Small creatures and creepy-crawlies, sentence 6
If you cut an earthworm in half, usually only the head end may survive and grow a new tail; the tail end dies, though some flatworms can regrow from pieces.
Who acts: you, head end, tail end, flatworms · What happens: cut, survive, grow, die, regrow · To what, where: earthworm, half, new tail, pieces
This is a sentence of the lesson «Small creatures and creepy-crawlies» of the myths 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 (you, head end, tail end, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 cut | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 cut | nsubj |
| 3 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 survive | advcl |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 earthworm | det |
| 5 | earthworm | earthworm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cut | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 half | case |
| 7 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 3 cut | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cut | punct |
| 9 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 15 survive | advmod |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 end | 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 | 15 survive | nsubj |
| 14 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 survive | aux |
| 15 | survive | survive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 grow | cc |
| 17 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 survive | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 tail | det |
| 19 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 tail | amod |
| 20 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 grow | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 dies | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 end | det |
| 23 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 end | compound |
| 24 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 dies | nsubj |
| 25 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 survive | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 regrow | punct |
| 27 | though | though | 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 | _ | 33 pieces | case |
| 33 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 regrow | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 survive | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut a condition, not said to happen | present | you | a earthworm | half | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earthworm=Product | |||
| 2 | survive | may | the head end | usually property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grow | infinitive | the head end not said here | a new tail | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tail=Theme | ||||
| 4 | die | present | the tail end | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | regrow | can | some flatworms | 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.
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:myths:009-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies.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): R5-strong ×2, 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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