--- title: Cutting an earthworm in half does not make two worms; sometimes the… — More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcup… · tree and pragmatics description: Cutting an earthworm in half does not make two worms; sometimes the front part survives and regrows a tail, but the back part usually dies. Who acts: Cutting, front part, back part. 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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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons.lesson:11 # text = Cutting an earthworm in half does not make two worms; sometimes the front part survives and regrows a tail, but the back part usually dies. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Cutting cut VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 csubj _ _ 2 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 earthworm earthworm NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 1 obl _ _ 6 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 worms worm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 12 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 16 advmod _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 survives survive VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:advcl 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 regrows regrow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 usually usually ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 dies die VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **survive** | present | the front part | | | | | sometimes *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **regrow** | present | the front part *not said here* | a tail | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **die** | present | the back part | | | | | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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. 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