--- title: Toads do not give people warts; warts are caused by a virus passed b… — More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcup… · tree and pragmatics description: Toads do not give people warts; warts are caused by a virus passed between people, but some toads have poison glands, so wash your hands after touching one. Who acts: Toads, virus. 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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 (Toads, virus), 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:9 # text = Toads do not give people warts; warts are caused by a virus passed between people, but some toads have poison glands, so wash your hands after touching one. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Toads toad NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 iobj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:compound 6 warts wart NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 warts wart NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 caused cause VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advcl 11 by by ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 virus virus NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 passed pass VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl _ _ 15 between between ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 20 det _ _ 20 toads toad NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 22 poison poison NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 glands gland NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 wash wash VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 27 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 29 after after SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 30 touching touch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ _ 31 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **give** | present · do-support | Toads | warts | people | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient wart=Theme | | 2 | **cause** | present · passive | a virus | warts | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient | | 3 | **pass** | participle | | a virus *not said here* | | | | between people | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between people=Location | | 4 | **have** | present | some toads | poison glands | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gland=Patient | | 5 | **wash** | infinitive | Toads *not said here* | your hands | | | | | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | | 6 | **touch** | gerund | Toads *not said here* | one | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Co-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](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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