--- title: You do not need to be a grown-up scientist to help wild animals. — What a child can do for nature · tree and pragmatics description: You do not need to be a grown-up scientist to help wild animals. Who acts: You. A sentence of the lesson «What a child can do for nature» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature/0/) [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/) / [What a child can do for nature](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature/) / 0 # What a child can do for nature, sentence 0 You do not need to be a grown-up scientist to help wild animals. **Who acts:** You · **What happens:** not need, grow up, be, help · **To what, where:** grown scientist, wild animals This is a sentence of the lesson «What a child can do for nature» 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 (You), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature.lesson:0 # text = You do not need to be a grown-up scientist to help wild animals. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature.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): R4-particle ×1 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 need need VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 6 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 cop _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 8 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 amod _ _ 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ _ 10 up up ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=8:compound 11 scientist scientist NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 xcomp _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 acl _ _ 14 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **need** | present · do-support | You | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 2 | **grow up** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is a** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | a grown scientist | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **help** | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | | wild animals | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Beneficiary | 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:285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature.lesson:0`. **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): R4-particle ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goo…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers/15/) - next →: [What a child can do for nature, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature/)