--- title: Playground myths work the same way: touching a toad does not give yo… — More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcup… · tree and pragmatics description: Playground myths work the same way: touching a toad does not give you warts, a bird will not abandon a chick you touched, and cutting a worm in half does not make two worms. Who acts: Playground myths, touching, bird, you. 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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 (Playground myths, touching, bird, you), 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:3 # text = Playground myths work the same way: touching a toad does not give you warts, a bird will not abandon a chick you touched, and cutting a worm in half does not make two worms. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Playground playground NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 myths myth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 8 touching touch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 csubj _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 toad toad NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 iobj _ _ 15 warts wart NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 19 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 abandon abandon VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 chick chick NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 touched touch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 28 cutting cut VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 35 csubj _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 worm worm NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 28 obl _ _ 33 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 35 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 36 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ _ 37 worms worm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **work** | present | Playground myths | the same way | | | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent way=Material | | 2 | **touch** | gerund | | a toad | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme toad=Co-Theme | | 3 | **not** **give** | present · do-support | touching | warts | you | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient wart=Theme | | 4 | **not** **abandon** | future | a bird | a chick | | | | | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme chick=Source | | 5 | **touch** | past | you | a chick *not said here* | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme chick=Co-Theme | | 6 | **cut** | gerund | | a worm | | half | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset worm=Product | | 7 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | cutting | two worms | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset worm=Product | 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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