Hedgehogs: spines, hibernation and how to help them, sentence 14
Hedgehogs can swim, but they get stuck in ponds with steep sides, so a ramp or a few stones at the edge lets them climb out.
Who acts: Hedgehogs, babies, ramp · What happens: swim, get, let, climb out · To what, where: babies
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, babies, ramp), 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 | 3 swim | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 swim | aux |
| 3 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 get | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 get | cc |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 get | nsubj |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 swim | conj |
| 8 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 get | xcomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 ponds | case |
| 10 | ponds | pond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stuck | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 sides | case |
| 12 | steep | steep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sides | amod |
| 13 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ponds | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 lets | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 lets | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 ramp | det |
| 17 | ramp | ramp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lets | nsubj |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 stones | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 stones | det |
| 20 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 stones | amod |
| 21 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 ramp | conj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 edge | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 edge | det |
| 24 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stones | nmod |
| 25 | lets | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 swim | conj |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 lets | obj |
| 27 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 lets | xcomp |
| 28 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 climb | compound:prt |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 swim | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim | can | Hedgehogs | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get | present | babies = baby | stuck property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | let | present | a ramp or a few stones at the edge | babies = baby | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | climb out | infinitive | babies = baby not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:14.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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