Conservation: how people help animals come back, sentence 14

Hedgehogs walk about 1 to 2 kilometres a night, and a hole about 13 centimetres square in a fence lets them pass between gardens along a hedgehog highway.

Who acts: Hedgehogs, hole · What happens: walk, let, pass · To what, where: 1, Hedgehogs, gardens

This is a sentence of the lesson «Conservation: how people help animals come back» 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, hole), 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 walk	nsubj
2	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 1	advmod
4	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 walk	obl
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 2	case
6	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 kilometres	nummod
7	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 1	nmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 night	det
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walk	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lets	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 lets	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 hole	det
13	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lets	nsubj
14	about	about	ADV	_	15 13	advmod
15	13	13	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 centimetres	nummod
16	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 square	compound
17	square	square	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hole	amod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 fence	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 fence	det
20	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 square	obl
21	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 walk	conj
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 lets	obj
23	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 lets	xcomp
24	between	between	ADP	_	25 gardens	case
25	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 pass	obl
26	along	along	ADP	_	29 highway	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 highway	det
28	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 highway	compound
29	highway	highway	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pass	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 walk	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	present	Hedgehogs	1 2 kilometres		night		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	let	present	a hole	Hedgehogs = hedgehog				tree rules
3	pass	infinitive	Hedgehogs = hedgehog not said here		gardens		along a hedgehog highway	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between garden=Location

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:078-conservation-animals-come-back.lesson:14.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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