Keeping garden wildlife safe, sentence 2

A pile of sticks waiting for a bonfire looks like a perfect hiding place to a hedgehog, so the pile is checked, or better moved, just before it is lit.

Who acts: pile · What happens: wait, look, check, move, lit · To what, where: pile

This is a sentence of the lesson «Keeping garden wildlife safe» of the everyday 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 (pile), 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	2 pile	det
2	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looks	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 sticks	case
4	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pile	nmod
5	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 pile	acl
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 bonfire	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bonfire	det
8	bonfire	bonfire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 waiting	obl
9	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	like	like	ADP	_	14 place	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 place	det
12	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 place	amod
13	hiding	hiding	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 place	compound
14	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looks	obl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 hedgehog	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 hedgehog	det
17	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 place	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 checked	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	23 checked	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 pile	det
21	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 checked	nsubj:pass
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 checked	aux:pass
23	checked	check	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 looks	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 moved	punct
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 moved	cc
26	better	good	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 moved	advmod
27	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 checked	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 lit	punct
29	just	just	ADV	_	33 lit	advmod
30	before	before	SCONJ	_	33 lit	mark
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 lit	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 lit	aux:pass
33	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 checked	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 looks	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	gerund	a pile of sticks not said here		for a bonfire	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	present	a pile of sticks		like a perfect hiding place to a hedgehog	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	check	present · passive		the pile		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	move	participle			good property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	lit	present · passive		pile		tree rules

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:everyday:072-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe.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): R5-strong ×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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