--- title: If you cut an earthworm in half, usually only the head end may survi… — Small creatures and creepy-crawlies · tree and pragmatics description: If you cut an earthworm in half, usually only the head end may survive and grow a new tail; the tail end dies, though some flatworms can regrow from pieces. Who acts: you, head end, tail end, flatworms. 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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 (you, head end, tail end, flatworms), 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:6 # text = If you cut an earthworm in half, usually only the head end may survive and grow a new tail; the tail end dies, though some flatworms can regrow from pieces. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 cut cut VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 4 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 earthworm earthworm NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 3 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 9 usually usually ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 10 only only ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15: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 15 nsubj _ _ 14 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 survive survive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 dies die VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:advcl 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 though though SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 28 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 29 det _ _ 29 flatworms flatworm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 30 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 regrow regrow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:conj 32 from from ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cut** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | a earthworm | | half | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earthworm=Product | | 2 | **survive** | may | the head end | | | | | usually *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **grow** | infinitive | the head end *not said here* | a new tail | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tail=Theme | | 4 | **die** | present | the tail end | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **regrow** | can | some flatworms | | | pieces | | | tree rules | 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:6`. **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 ×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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/9-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies/5/) - next →: [Small creatures and creepy-crawlies, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/9-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/9-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies/)