Hedgehogs: spines, hibernation and how to help them, sentence 10

Hedgehogs travel through many gardens to find food and mates, so neighbours cut holes about the size of a CD in their fences to make hedgehog highways.

Who acts: Hedgehogs, neighbours · What happens: travel, find, cut, make · To what, where: many gardens, food, holes, fences, hedgehog highways

This is a sentence of the lesson «Hedgehogs: spines, hibernation and how to help them» of the biology 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 (Hedgehogs, neighbours), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 travel	nsubj
2	travel	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	5 gardens	case
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gardens	amod
5	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 travel	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 find	mark
7	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 travel	advcl
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 find	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 mates	cc
10	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 food	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 neighbours	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 cut	advmod
13	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 cut	nsubj
14	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 travel	parataxis
15	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 cut	obj
16	about	about	ADP	_	18 size	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 size	det
18	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 holes	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 CD	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 CD	det
21	CD	CD	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 size	nmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 fences	case
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 fences	nmod:poss
24	fences	fence	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 cut	obl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 make	mark
26	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 cut	advcl
27	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 highways	compound
28	highways	highway	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 make	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 travel	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	travel	present	Hedgehogs		many gardens		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through garden=Trajectory
2	find	to-infinitive	Hedgehogs not said here	food and mates			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic
3	cut	present	neighbours	holes	neighbours's fences	about the size of a CD	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product
4	make	to-infinitive	neighbours not said here	hedgehog highways			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset highway=Product

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, 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:biology:214-hedgehogs-spines-hibernation-and-how-to-help-them.lesson:10.

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 ×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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