What a child can do for nature, sentence 2
Think of a hedgehog walking through gardens after dark: it may travel a kilometre or two looking for beetles and worms, and a solid fence is a wall it cannot pass.
Who acts: you, hedgehog, garden, solid fence, fence · What happens: think, walk, travel, look, be, not pass · To what, where: gardens, kilometre, wall
This is a sentence of the lesson «What a child can do for nature» 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 (you, hedgehog, garden, solid fence), 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 | Think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 hedgehog | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hedgehog | det |
| 4 | hedgehog | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Think | obl |
| 5 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 hedgehog | acl |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 gardens | case |
| 7 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 walking | obl |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 dark | case |
| 9 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 walking | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 travel | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 travel | nsubj |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 travel | aux |
| 13 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Think | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 kilometre | det |
| 15 | kilometre | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 travel | obj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 two | cc |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 kilometre | conj |
| 18 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 travel | advcl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 beetles | case |
| 20 | beetles | beetle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 looking | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 worms | cc |
| 22 | worms | worm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 beetles | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 wall | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 wall | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 fence | det |
| 26 | solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 fence | amod |
| 27 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 wall | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 wall | cop |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 wall | det |
| 30 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 travel | conj |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 pass | nsubj |
| 32 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 pass | aux |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 pass | advmod |
| 34 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 wall | acl:relcl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Think | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | imperative | you not said here | of a hedgehog | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | walk | gerund | a hedgehog not said here | gardens | after dark | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through garden=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | travel | may | garden | a kilometre | vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location kilometre=Theme | ||||
| 4 | look | gerund | garden not said here | for beetles and worms | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for beetle=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | a solid fence | a wall | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not pass | can | fence | a wall not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wall=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:285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature.lesson:2.
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 ×3, 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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