Hedgehogs: spines, hibernation and how to help them, sentence 6
Hedgehogs hunt at night for beetles, worms, caterpillars and slugs, which makes them friends of gardeners, and one can walk a couple of kilometres a night.
Who acts: Hedgehogs, slugs, one · What happens: hunt, make, walk · To what, where: slugs, couple
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, slugs, one), 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 hunt | nsubj |
| 2 | hunt | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 night | case |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hunt | obl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 beetles | case |
| 6 | beetles | beetle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hunt | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 worms | punct |
| 8 | worms | worm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 beetles | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 caterpillars | punct |
| 10 | caterpillars | caterpillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 beetles | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 slugs | cc |
| 12 | slugs | slug | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 beetles | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 makes | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 makes | nsubj |
| 15 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 slugs | acl:relcl |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 makes | obj |
| 17 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 makes | xcomp |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 gardeners | case |
| 19 | gardeners | gardener | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 friends | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 walk | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 walk | cc |
| 22 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 walk | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 walk | aux |
| 24 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 hunt | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 couple | det |
| 26 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 walk | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 kilometres | case |
| 28 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 couple | nmod |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 night | det |
| 30 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 walk | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hunt | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt | present | Hedgehogs | night | for beetles and worms and caterpillars and slugs | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for beetle=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | present | slugs | slugs = slug | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | ||||
| 3 | walk | can | one | a couple of kilometres | night | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme couple=Trajectory |
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: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): 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.
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