Hedgehogs: spines, hibernation and how to help them, sentence 11
Slug pellets can poison hedgehogs that eat poisoned slugs, and hedgehogs are getting rarer in Britain.
Who acts: Slug pellets, hedgehogs · What happens: poison, eat, get · To what, where: hedgehogs, poisoned slugs
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 (Slug pellets, hedgehogs), 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 | Slug | slug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pellets | compound |
| 2 | pellets | pellet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 poison | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 poison | aux |
| 4 | poison | poison | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | hedgehogs | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 poison | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 eat | nsubj |
| 7 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hedgehogs | acl:relcl |
| 8 | poisoned | poison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 slugs | amod |
| 9 | slugs | slug | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 eat | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 getting | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 getting | cc |
| 12 | hedgehogs | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 getting | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 getting | aux |
| 14 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 poison | conj |
| 15 | rarer | rare | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 getting | xcomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 Britain | case |
| 17 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 rarer | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 poison | punct |
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 | poison | can | Slug pellets | hedgehogs | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hedgehog=Patient | ||||
| 2 | eat | present | hedgehogs | poisoned slugs | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slug=Patient | ||||
| 3 | poison | participle | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | get | present · progressive | hedgehogs | rare property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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:11.
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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