--- title: A worm cut in half does not become two worms; sometimes the head end… — Worms, snails and slugs · tree and pragmatics description: A worm cut in half does not become two worms; sometimes the head end survives and grows a new tail, but the tail end usually dies. Who acts: worm, head end, tail end. 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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 (worm, head end, tail end), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:217-worms-snails-and-slugs.lesson:6 # text = A worm cut in half does not become two worms; sometimes the head end survives and grows a new tail, but the tail end usually dies. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 217-worms-snails-and-slugs.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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 worm worm NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 acl _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 3 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 become become 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 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=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 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 end end 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 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 usually usually ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 dies die VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | the head end | | | | | sometimes *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **grow** | present | the head end *not said here* | a new tail | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tail=Theme | | 5 | **die** | present | the tail end | | | | | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:217-worms-snails-and-slugs.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Worms, snails and slugs, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/217-worms-snails-and-slugs/5/) - next →: [Worms, snails and slugs, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/217-worms-snails-and-slugs/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/217-worms-snails-and-slugs/)