Hedgehogs: spines, hibernation and how to help them, sentence 3
Hedgehogs are getting rarer in Britain, so small things matter: a hole in a fence, a ramp in a pond, a bonfire pile checked before it is lit, and water instead of milk.
Who acts: Hedgehogs, small things · What happens: get, matter, check, lit · To what, where: Britain, bonfire pile, hedgehog
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, small things), 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 getting | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 getting | aux |
| 3 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | rarer | rare | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 getting | xcomp |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Britain | case |
| 6 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 getting | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 matter | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 matter | advmod |
| 9 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 things | amod |
| 10 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 matter | nsubj |
| 11 | matter | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 getting | parataxis |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 hole | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hole | det |
| 14 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 matter | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 fence | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 fence | det |
| 17 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hole | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ramp | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 ramp | det |
| 20 | ramp | ramp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hole | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 pond | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 pond | det |
| 23 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ramp | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 pile | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 pile | det |
| 26 | bonfire | bonfire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 pile | compound |
| 27 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hole | conj |
| 28 | checked | check | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 pile | acl |
| 29 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 32 lit | mark |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 lit | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 lit | aux:pass |
| 32 | lit | lit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 checked | advcl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 water | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 water | cc |
| 35 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hole | conj |
| 36 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 38 milk | case |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 instead | fixed |
| 38 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 water | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 getting | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present · progressive | Hedgehogs | Britain | rare property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | matter | present | small things | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | check | participle | a bonfire pile not said here | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | lit | present · passive | hedgehog | 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, 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: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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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