Hedgehogs: spines, hibernation and how to help them, sentence 9
Hedgehogs often crawl into piles of leaves and wood, so a bonfire pile should be checked before lighting or, better, built on the day.
Who acts: Hedgehogs · What happens: crawl, check, build · To what, where: piles, bonfire pile
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), 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 crawl | nsubj |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 3 crawl | advmod |
| 3 | crawl | crawl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 piles | case |
| 5 | piles | pile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 crawl | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 leaves | case |
| 7 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 piles | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wood | cc |
| 9 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leaves | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 checked | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 checked | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 pile | det |
| 13 | bonfire | bonfire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pile | compound |
| 14 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 checked | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 checked | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 checked | aux:pass |
| 17 | checked | check | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 crawl | parataxis |
| 18 | before | before | ADP | _ | 19 lighting | case |
| 19 | lighting | lighting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 checked | advcl |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 better | cc |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 or | punct |
| 22 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 built | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 built | punct |
| 24 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 checked | conj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 day | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 day | det |
| 27 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 built | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 crawl | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crawl | present | Hedgehogs | piles of leaves and wood | often property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into pile=Destination | |||
| 2 | check | should · passive | a bonfire pile | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | build | participle | day | well property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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:9.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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