--- title: Think of a hedgehog walking through gardens after dark: it may trave… — What a child can do for nature · tree and pragmatics description: Think of a hedgehog walking through gardens after dark: it may travel a kilometre or two looking for beetles and worms, and a solid fence is a wall it cannot pass. Who acts: you, hedgehog, garden, solid fence. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, hedgehog, garden, solid fence), 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:2 # text = Think of a hedgehog walking through gardens after dark: it may travel a kilometre or two looking for beetles and worms, and a solid fence is a wall it cannot pass. # 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): R1-cc-next ×3, R5-strong ×1 1 Think think VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 hedgehog hedgehog NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 walking walk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 acl _ _ 6 through through ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 gardens garden NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 8 after after ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 obl _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 travel travel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 kilometre kilometre NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc 17 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 conj _ _ 18 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:acl 19 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 beetles beetle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=20:cc 22 worms worm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=13:cc 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 solid solid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 fence fence NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 32 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 34 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 acl:relcl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | of a hedgehog | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **walk** | gerund | a hedgehog *not said here* | | | gardens | after dark | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through garden=Trajectory | | 3 | **travel** | may | garden | a kilometre | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location kilometre=Theme | | 4 | **look** | gerund | garden *not said here* | | | | | for beetles and worms | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for beetle=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | present | a solid fence | a wall | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **pass** | can | fence | a wall *not said here* | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wall=Trajectory | 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:2`. **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): R1-cc-next ×3, R5-strong ×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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature/1/) - next →: [What a child can do for nature, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature/)