--- title: Charlie stands in the garden with a spade, grinning: "Cut a worm in… — Small creatures and creepy-crawlies · tree and pragmatics description: Charlie stands in the garden with a spade, grinning: "Cut a worm in half and you get TWO worms. Who acts: Charlie, you. A sentence of the lesson «Small creatures and creepy-crawlies» of the myths 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/myths/9-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies/0/) [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/) / [Small creatures and creepy-crawlies](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/9-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies/) / 0 # Small creatures and creepy-crawlies, sentence 0 Charlie stands in the garden with a spade, grinning: "Cut a worm in half and you get TWO worms. **Who acts:** Charlie, you · **What happens:** stand, grin, cut, get · **To what, where:** garden, worm, half, TWO worms · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Small creatures and creepy-crawlies» 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 (Charlie, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:009-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies.lesson:0 # text = Charlie stands in the garden with a spade, grinning: "Cut a worm in half and you get TWO worms. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 009-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies.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 ×2 1 Charlie Charlie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 spade spade NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 grinning grin VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 11 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 13 Cut cut VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:parataxis 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 worm worm NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 13 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 21 TWO two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 worms worm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | present | Charlie | | | the garden | | with a spade | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in garden=Location | | 2 | **grin** | gerund | Charlie *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **cut** *in a quote* | infinitive | Charlie *not said here* | a worm | | half | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset worm=Product | | 4 | **get** *in a quote* | present | you | TWO worms | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer worm=Stimulus | 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:009-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies.lesson:0`. **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 ×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: [Wild animals and tall tales, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/8-wild-animals-and-tall-tales/17/) - next →: [Small creatures and creepy-crawlies, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/9-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/9-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies/)