Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too soon», sentence 8

Hedgehogs often cross roads at night, and many are hit by cars; people make holes in garden fences to give them safer paths.

Who acts: Hedgehogs, people · What happens: cross, hit, make, give · To what, where: roads, many, holes, garden fences, safer paths, people

This is a sentence of the lesson «Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too soon»» of the religion ethics 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, people), 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 cross	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 cross	advmod
3	cross	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cross	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cross	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hit	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hit	cc
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hit	nsubj:pass
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 hit	aux:pass
11	hit	hit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 cross	conj
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 cars	case
13	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hit	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 make	punct
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 make	nsubj
16	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cross	parataxis
17	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 make	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 fences	case
19	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fences	compound
20	fences	fence	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 holes	nmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 give	mark
22	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 make	advcl
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 give	iobj
24	safer	safe	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 paths	amod
25	paths	path	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 give	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cross	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross	present	Hedgehogs	roads			night	often property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient
2	hit	present · passive		many				by cars	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme by car=Destination
3	make	present	people	holes		garden fences			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Product
4	give	to-infinitive	people not said here	safer paths	people				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient path=Theme

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:religion-ethics:057-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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