What a child can do for nature, sentence 8

A shallow dish of water with a stone in it helps birds, bees and hedgehogs in dry summers; the stone lets insects climb out, and the dish should be cleaned often, because dirty water spreads disease; never give hedgehogs milk, which upsets their stomachs.

Who acts: shallow dish, stone, insects, dirty water, milk · What happens: help, let, climb out, clean, spread, not give · To what, where: birds, insects, dish, disease, milk, hedgehogs

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 (shallow dish, stone, insects, dirty water), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 dish	det
2	shallow	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dish	amod
3	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 helps	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 water	case
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dish	nmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 stone	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 stone	det
8	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dish	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stone	nmod
11	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 helps	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bees	punct
14	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 birds	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 hedgehogs	cc
16	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 birds	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 summers	case
18	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 summers	amod
19	summers	summer	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 helps	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 lets	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 stone	det
22	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lets	nsubj
23	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 helps	parataxis
24	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 lets	obj
25	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 lets	xcomp
26	out	out	ADP	_	25 climb	compound:prt
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 cleaned	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 cleaned	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 dish	det
30	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cleaned	nsubj:pass
31	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 cleaned	aux
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 cleaned	aux:pass
33	cleaned	clean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 lets	conj
34	often	often	ADV	_	33 cleaned	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 spreads	punct
36	because	because	SCONJ	_	39 spreads	mark
37	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 water	amod
38	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 spreads	nsubj
39	spreads	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 cleaned	advcl
40	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 spreads	obj
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 give	punct
42	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	43 give	advmod
43	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 spreads	conj
44	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 give	iobj
45	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 give	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 upsets	punct
47	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 upsets	nsubj
48	upsets	upset	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 milk	acl:relcl
49	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 stomachs	nmod:poss
50	stomachs	stomach	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 upsets	obj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 helps	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	a shallow dish of water with a stone in stone		birds and bees and hedgehogs	summer		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Beneficiary
2	let	present	the stone	insects				tree rules
3	climb out	infinitive	insects not said here					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	clean	should · passive		the dish			often property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
5	spread	present	dirty water	disease				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location disease=Theme
6	not give	infinitive	dirty water not said here	milk	hedgehogs			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent hedgehog=Recipient milk=Theme
7	upset	present	milk	dish's stomachs				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus stomach=Experiencer

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:8.

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): R5-strong ×3, 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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