--- title: In the middle of the pond the family builds a lodge of sticks and mu… — Animal builders: beavers, dams and lodges · tree and pragmatics description: In the middle of the pond the family builds a lodge of sticks and mud with an underwater door, so wolves and bears cannot get in. Who acts: family, wolves. A sentence of the lesson «Animal builders: beavers, dams and lodges» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/242-animal-builders-beavers-dams-and-lodges/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/) / [Animal builders: beavers, dams and lod…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/242-animal-builders-beavers-dams-and-lodges/) / 3 # Animal builders: beavers, dams and lodges, sentence 3 In the middle of the pond the family builds a lodge of sticks and mud with an underwater door, so wolves and bears cannot get in. **Who acts:** family, wolves · **What happens:** build, not get in · **To what, where:** lodge, middle This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal builders: beavers, dams and lodges» 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 (family, wolves), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:242-animal-builders-beavers-dams-and-lodges.lesson:3 # text = In the middle of the pond the family builds a lodge of sticks and mud with an underwater door, so wolves and bears cannot get in. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 242-animal-builders-beavers-dams-and-lodges.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 pond pond NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 builds build VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 lodge lodge NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 sticks stick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 mud mud NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 underwater underwater ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 19 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod 20 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 21 so so SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 22 wolves wolf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 bears bear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ _ 25 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 28 in in ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 . . 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 | **build** | present | the family | a lodge of sticks and mud | | the middle of the pond | | with a underwater door | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent lodge=Theme with door=Source | | 2 | **not** **get in** | can | wolves and bears | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:242-animal-builders-beavers-dams-and-lodges.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 ×1, R7-rel-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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