--- title: Councils can make wild verges, plant trees and turn lights down, and… — What a child can do for nature · tree and pragmatics description: Councils can make wild verges, plant trees and turn lights down, and many changes start with a polite letter from a child. Who acts: Councils, many changes. 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 pragm --- [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/18/) [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/) / 18 # What a child can do for nature, sentence 18 Councils can make wild verges, plant trees and turn lights down, and many changes start with a polite letter from a child. **Who acts:** Councils, many changes · **What happens:** make, plant, turn down, start · **To what, where:** wild verges, trees, lights 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 (Councils, many changes), 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:18 # text = Councils can make wild verges, plant trees and turn lights down, and many changes start with a polite letter from a child. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Councils council NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 verges verge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 plant plant VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 8 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 11 lights light NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 down down ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 changes change NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 start start VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 from from ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | can | Councils | wild verges | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset verge=Product | | 2 | **plant** | infinitive | Councils *not said here* | trees | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient | | 3 | **turn down** | infinitive | Councils *not said here* | lights | | | | | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme | | 4 | **start** | present | many changes | | | | | with a polite letter from a child | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with letter=Subeventuality | 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:18`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [What a child can do for nature, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature/17/) - next →: [From field to plate: wheat, flour and…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature/)