--- title: But a dropped penny can't kill, there's no magic dye for wee, and no… — Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang · tree and pragmatics description: But a dropped penny can't kill, there's no magic dye for wee, and no shark can squeeze through pool pipes. Who acts: dropped penny, magic dye, shark. A sentence of the lesson «Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/23-petrol-stations-pools-and-things-that-go-bang/4/) [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/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / [Petrol stations, pools and things that…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/23-petrol-stations-pools-and-things-that-go-bang/) / 4 # Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang, sentence 4 But a dropped penny can't kill, there's no magic dye for wee, and no shark can squeeze through pool pipes. **Who acts:** dropped penny, magic dye, shark · **What happens:** drop, not kill, be, squeeze · **To what, where:** pool pipes This is a sentence of the lesson «Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang» of the myths 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 (dropped penny, magic dye, shark), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:023-petrol-stations-pools-and-things-that-go-bang.lesson:4 # text = But a dropped penny can't kill, there's no magic dye for wee, and no shark can squeeze through pool pipes. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 023-petrol-stations-pools-and-things-that-go-bang.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): no change 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 dropped drop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 amod _ _ 4 penny penny NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 10 expl _ _ 10 's be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 11 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 13 det _ _ 12 magic magic NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 dye dye NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 wee wee NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 19 det _ _ 19 shark shark NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 squeeze squeeze VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 22 through through ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 pool pool NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 pipes pipe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **drop** | participle | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **not** **kill** | can | a dropped penny | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **be** | present | no magic dye for wee | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **squeeze** | can | no shark | | | pool pipes | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through pipe=Trajectory | 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:myths:023-petrol-stations-pools-and-things-that-go-bang.lesson:4`. **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): no change. **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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