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title: A log pile in a corner of the garden is a mini habitat that shelters… — Spiders and other minibeasts under logs and stones · tree and pragmatics
description: A log pile in a corner of the garden is a mini habitat that shelters many minibeasts, and frogs and hedgehogs come to hunt there. Who acts: log pile, mini habitat, frogs. A sentence of the lesson «Spiders and other minibeasts under logs and stones» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with
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# Spiders and other minibeasts under logs and stones, sentence 15

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A log pile in a corner of the garden is a mini habitat that shelters many minibeasts, and frogs and hedgehogs come to hunt there.

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**Who acts:** log pile, mini habitat, frogs · **What happens:** be, shelter, come, hunt · **To what, where:** mini habitat, many minibeasts

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Spiders and other minibeasts under logs and stones» 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 (log pile, mini habitat, frogs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:220-spiders-and-other-minibeasts-under-logs-and-stones.lesson:15
# text = A log pile in a corner of the garden is a mini habitat that shelters many minibeasts, and frogs and hedgehogs come to hunt there.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 220-spiders-and-other-minibeasts-under-logs-and-stones.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	pile	pile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	mini	mini	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	habitat	habitat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	shelters	shelter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	minibeasts	minibeast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
23	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a log pile in a corner of the garden | a mini habitat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **shelter** | present | a mini habitat | many minibeasts |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent minibeast=Patient |
| 3 | **come** | present | frogs and hedgehogs |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hunt** | to-infinitive | frogs and hedgehogs *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:220-spiders-and-other-minibeasts-under-logs-and-stones.lesson:15`.

**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.

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

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