--- title: Hedgehogs are getting rarer in Britain, so small things matter: a ho… — Hedgehogs: spines, hibernation and how to help t… · tree and pragmatics description: Hedgehogs are getting rarer in Britain, so small things matter: a hole in a fence, a ramp in a pond, a bonfire pile checked before it is lit, and water instead of milk. Who acts: Hedgehogs, small things. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hedgehogs, small things), 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:3 # text = Hedgehogs are getting rarer in Britain, so small things matter: a hole in a fence, a ramp in a pond, a bonfire pile checked before it is lit, and water instead of milk. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Hedgehogs hedgehog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 rarer rare ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 xcomp _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 so so ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 9 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 matter matter VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 fence fence NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 ramp ramp NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 pond pond NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 bonfire bonfire NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 pile pile NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:appos 28 checked check VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 acl _ _ 29 before before SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:cop 32 lit lit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:advcl|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=14:cc 35 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 36 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 38 case _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 36 fixed _ _ 38 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 39 . . 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 | **get** | present · progressive | Hedgehogs | | | Britain | | rare *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **matter** | present | small things | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **check** | participle | | a bonfire pile *not said here* | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **lit** | present · passive | | hedgehog | | | | | 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](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:3`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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