--- title: Cutting a worm in half usually kills it; sometimes the head end heal… — Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our… · tree and pragmatics description: Cutting a worm in half usually kills it; sometimes the head end heals and survives, but the tail end cannot grow a new head, and it is cruel to try. Who acts: Cutting, head end, tail end, it. 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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, head end, tail end, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:291-bees-worms-and-soil-the-hidden-helpers-of-our-food.lesson:15 # text = Cutting a worm in half usually kills it; sometimes the head end heals and survives, but the tail end cannot grow a new head, and it is cruel to try. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 291-bees-worms-and-soil-the-hidden-helpers-of-our-food.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Cutting cut VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 worm worm 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 _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod 6 usually usually ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 kills kill VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 14 advmod _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 heals heal VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 survives survive VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 cruel cruel ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 try try VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 csubj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cut** | gerund | | a worm | | half | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset worm=Product | | 2 | **kill** | present | Cutting | half | | | | usually *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **heal** | present | the head end | | | | | sometimes *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **survive** | present | the head end *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **not** **grow** | can | the tail end | a new head | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme | | 6 | **is** | present | it | | | | | cruel *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **try** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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:291-bees-worms-and-soil-the-hidden-helpers-of-our-food.lesson:15`. **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 ×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. 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