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title: Heroes come in every size: a village woman planting a tree in Kenya,… — Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Cars… · tree and pragmatics
description: Heroes come in every size: a village woman planting a tree in Kenya, a nine-year-old boy in Germany starting a tree campaign, or you counting birds in your garden for scientists. Who acts: Heroes, village woman, old boy, you. A sentence of the lesson «Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Cars
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# Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maathai and the rangers, sentence 3

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Heroes come in every size: a village woman planting a tree in Kenya, a nine-year-old boy in Germany starting a tree campaign, or you counting birds in your garden for scientists.

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**Who acts:** Heroes, village woman, old boy, you · **What happens:** come in, plant, start, count · **To what, where:** size, tree, Kenya, tree campaign, birds, garden

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maathai and the rangers» 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 (Heroes, village woman, old boy, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers.lesson:3
# text = Heroes come in every size: a village woman planting a tree in Kenya, a nine-year-old boy in Germany starting a tree campaign, or you counting birds in your garden for scientists.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers.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 ×2
1	Heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obj
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
9	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	planting	plant	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Kenya	Kenya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
17	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
19	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	_
21	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	starting	start	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	acl	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	campaign	campaign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	counting	count	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
33	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:nmod
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **come in** | present | Heroes | every size and a village woman |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **plant** | gerund | a village woman *not said here* | a tree |  | Kenya |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tree=Theme in kenya=Destination |
| 3 | **start** | gerund | a old boy in Germany *not said here* | a tree campaign |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent campaign=Eventuality |
| 4 | **count** | gerund | you | birds |  | your garden |  | for scientists | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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.

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