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# Hedgehogs: spines, hibernation and how to help them, sentence 8

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In winter hedgehogs hibernate: the body cools and the heart slows right down to save energy while food is short, and they must be fat enough in autumn to survive.

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**Who acts:** hedgehogs, body, heart, food, animals · **What happens:** hibernate, cool, slow, save, be, survive · **To what, where:** energy

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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 (hedgehogs, body, heart, food), 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:8
# text = In winter hedgehogs hibernate: the body cools and the heart slows right down to save energy while food is short, and they must be fat enough in autumn to survive.
# 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 ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hibernate	hibernate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	cools	cool	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	slows	slow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	right	right	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	down	down	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
17	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	advcl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
27	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
28	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	survive	survive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	acl	_	_
33	.	.	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 | **hibernate** | present | hedgehogs |  |  |  | winter |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location |
| 2 | **cool** | present | the body |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **slow** | present | the heart |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **save** | to-infinitive | the heart *not said here* | energy |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | present | food |  |  |  |  | short *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | must | animals *= animal* |  |  |  | autumn | enough, fat *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **survive** | to-infinitive | animals *= animal* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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 ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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