--- title: A shallow dish of water in hot weather helps birds, bees and hedgeho… — Kindness to wild animals · tree and pragmatics description: A shallow dish of water in hot weather helps birds, bees and hedgehogs, and an injured bird needs a wildlife rescue, not a cardboard box at home. Who acts: shallow dish, injured bird. A sentence of the lesson «Kindness to wild animals» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/3/) [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/) / [Kindness to wild animals](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/) / 3 # Kindness to wild animals, sentence 3 A shallow dish of water in hot weather helps birds, bees and hedgehogs, and an injured bird needs a wildlife rescue, not a cardboard box at home. **Who acts:** shallow dish, injured bird · **What happens:** help, need · **To what, where:** birds, wildlife rescue This is a sentence of the lesson «Kindness to wild animals» 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 (shallow dish, injured bird), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:226-kindness-to-wild-animals.lesson:3 # text = A shallow dish of water in hot weather helps birds, bees and hedgehogs, and an injured bird needs a wildlife rescue, not a cardboard box at home. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 226-kindness-to-wild-animals.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): R5-strong ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 shallow shallow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 dish dish NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obl 9 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 bees bee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 hedgehogs hedgehog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 injured injured ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 wildlife wildlife NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 rescue rescue NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 cardboard cardboard NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:obl 29 at at ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **help** | present | a shallow dish of water in hot weather | | birds and bees and hedgehogs | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Beneficiary | | 2 | **need** | present | a injured bird | a wildlife rescue and a cardboard box at home | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot rescue=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:226-kindness-to-wild-animals.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): R5-strong ×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/). - ← previous: [Kindness to wild animals, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/2/) - next →: [Kindness to wild animals, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/)