--- title: Most of the stories fall apart when you look closely: a cut worm usu… — Small creatures and creepy-crawlies · tree and pragmatics description: Most of the stories fall apart when you look closely: a cut worm usually loses its tail end, earwigs got their spooky name from old folk beliefs, and daddy longlegs are harmless to people. Who acts: Most, you, cut worm, earwigs. 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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 (Most, you, cut worm, earwigs), 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:3 # text = Most of the stories fall apart when you look closely: a cut worm usually loses its tail end, earwigs got their spooky name from old folk beliefs, and daddy longlegs are harmless to people. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 5 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 5 fall fall VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 apart apart ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 10 closely closely ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 cut cut ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 worm worm NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 usually usually ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 loses lose VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl 17 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 earwigs earwig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 spooky spooky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 from from ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 28 folk folk NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 beliefs belief NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 daddy daddy NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 longlegs longleg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 34 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 35 harmless harmless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 conj _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall apart** | present | Most of the stories | | | | | apart *property* | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **look** | present | you | | | | | closely *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **lose** | present | a cut worm | worm's tail end | | | | usually *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Eventuality | | 4 | **get** | past | earwigs | stories's spooky name | | old folk beliefs | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent name=Theme from belief=Source | | 5 | **is** | present | daddy longlegs | | | | | to people; harmless *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **name** | | stories *= story* | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:3`. **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): R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Small creatures and creepy-crawlies, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/9-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies/2/) - next →: [Small creatures and creepy-crawlies, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/9-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/9-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies/)