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title: A messy corner of a garden, a dish of water on a hot day or a small… — What a child can do for nature · tree and pragmatics
description: A messy corner of a garden, a dish of water on a hot day or a small hole in a fence can save lives every night. Who acts: messy corner. 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
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# What a child can do for nature, sentence 1

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A messy corner of a garden, a dish of water on a hot day or a small hole in a fence can save lives every night.

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**Who acts:** messy corner · **What happens:** save · **To what, where:** lives

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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 (messy corner), 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:1
# text = A messy corner of a garden, a dish of water on a hot day or a small hole in a fence can save lives every night.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	messy	messy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	fence	fence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
25	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
26	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	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 | **save** | can | a messy corner of a garden and a dish of water on a hot day or a small hole in a fence | lives |  |  | night |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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): 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.

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