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A sentence of the lesson «Hedgehogs: spines, hibernation and how to help them» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/214-hedgehogs-spines-hibernation-and-how-to-help-them/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Hedgehogs: spines, hibernation and how…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/214-hedgehogs-spines-hibernation-and-how-to-help-them/) / 14 # Hedgehogs: spines, hibernation and how to help them, sentence 14 Hedgehogs can swim, but they get stuck in ponds with steep sides, so a ramp or a few stones at the edge lets them climb out. **Who acts:** Hedgehogs, babies, ramp · **What happens:** swim, get, let, climb out · **To what, where:** babies 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 (Hedgehogs, babies, ramp), 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:14 # text = Hedgehogs can swim, but they get stuck in ponds with steep sides, so a ramp or a few stones at the edge lets them climb out. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 Hedgehogs hedgehog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 swim swim VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 but but CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 stuck stuck ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 ponds pond NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 steep steep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 ramp ramp NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 edge edge NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nmod 25 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=7:conj 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 climb climb VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 out out ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **swim** | can | Hedgehogs | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **get** | present | babies *= baby* | | | | | stuck *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **let** | present | a ramp or a few stones at the edge | babies *= baby* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **climb out** | infinitive | babies *= baby* *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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](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: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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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