--- title: A worm cut in half does not become two worms; usually only one part… — Chickens, goats and little creatures · tree and pragmatics description: A worm cut in half does not become two worms; usually only one part survives, if any. Who acts: worm, one part. A sentence of the lesson «Chickens, goats and little creatures» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/68-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures/22/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Chickens, goats and little creatures](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/68-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures/) / 22 # Chickens, goats and little creatures, sentence 22 A worm cut in half does not become two worms; usually only one part survives, if any. **Who acts:** worm, one part · **What happens:** cut, not become, survive · **To what, where:** worm, half, two worms This is a sentence of the lesson «Chickens, goats and little creatures» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (worm, one part), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:068-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures.lesson:22 # text = A worm cut in half does not become two worms; usually only one part survives, if any. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 068-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 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|Voice=Pass 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 _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct 12 usually usually ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 13 only only ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 14 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 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:conj 17 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 18 if if SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 19 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 16 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:advcl|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 20 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 | one part | | | | | usually *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:068-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures.lesson:22`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **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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