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title: Slug pellets can poison hedgehogs that eat poisoned slugs, and hedge… — Hedgehogs: spines, hibernation and how to help t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Slug pellets can poison hedgehogs that eat poisoned slugs, and hedgehogs are getting rarer in Britain. Who acts: Slug pellets, hedgehogs. A sentence of the lesson «Hedgehogs: spines, hibernation and how to help them» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Hedgehogs: spines, hibernation and how to help them, sentence 11

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Slug pellets can poison hedgehogs that eat poisoned slugs, and hedgehogs are getting rarer in Britain.

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**Who acts:** Slug pellets, hedgehogs · **What happens:** poison, eat, get · **To what, where:** hedgehogs, poisoned slugs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Hedgehogs: spines, hibernation and how to help them» 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 (Slug pellets, hedgehogs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:214-hedgehogs-spines-hibernation-and-how-to-help-them.lesson:11
# text = Slug pellets can poison hedgehogs that eat poisoned slugs, and hedgehogs are getting rarer in Britain.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 214-hedgehogs-spines-hibernation-and-how-to-help-them.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change
1	Slug	slug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	pellets	pellet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	poison	poison	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	poisoned	poison	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	slugs	slug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
15	rarer	rare	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	xcomp	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **poison** | can | Slug pellets | hedgehogs |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hedgehog=Patient |
| 2 | **eat** | present | hedgehogs | poisoned slugs |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slug=Patient |
| 3 | **poison** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **get** | present · progressive | hedgehogs |  |  |  |  | rare *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:214-hedgehogs-spines-hibernation-and-how-to-help-them.lesson:11`.

**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): no change. **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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