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title: Apps let children record the animals and plants they see; their phot… — What a child can do for nature · tree and pragmatics
description: Apps let children record the animals and plants they see; their photos let experts check what each animal really is and help scientists map where species live. Who acts: Apps, children, photos, experts. A sentence of the lesson «What a child can do for nature» of the biology course of Mova's primary
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# What a child can do for nature, sentence 16

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Apps let children record the animals and plants they see; their photos let experts check what each animal really is and help scientists map where species live.

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**Who acts:** Apps, children, photos, experts, animal, scientists · **What happens:** let, record, see, check, be, help · **To what, where:** children, animals, scientists

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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 (Apps, children, photos, experts), 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:16
# text = Apps let children record the animals and plants they see; their photos let experts check what each animal really is and help scientists map where species live.
# 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	Apps	app	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	record	record	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	photos	photo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
15	experts	expert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	obj	_	_
18	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
20	really	really	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
24	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	map	map	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	28	advmod	_	_
27	species	species	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	ccomp	_	_
29	.	.	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 | **let** | infinitive | Apps | children |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **record** | infinitive | children *not said here* | the animals and plants |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | present | Apps *= app* | the animals and plants *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer animal=Stimulus |
| 4 | **let** | past | Apps's photos |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **check** | infinitive | experts |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** | present | each animal |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **help** | infinitive | experts *not said here* | scientists |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent scientist=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 8 | **map** | infinitive | scientists *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **live** | present | species |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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