--- title: Small choices add up when millions of people make them: lights dimme… — What a child can do for nature · tree and pragmatics description: Small choices add up when millions of people make them: lights dimmed at night, food not wasted, native flowers planted, sightings sent to scientists and polite letters sent to the council. Who acts: Small choices, millions. A sentence of the lesson «What a child can do for nature» of the biology co --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # What a child can do for nature, sentence 5 Small choices add up when millions of people make them: lights dimmed at night, food not wasted, native flowers planted, sightings sent to scientists and polite letters sent to the council. **Who acts:** Small choices, millions · **What happens:** add up, make, dim, not waste, plant, send · **To what, where:** choices, lights, food, native flowers, sightings, scientists 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 (Small choices, millions), 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:5 # text = Small choices add up when millions of people make them: lights dimmed at night, food not wasted, native flowers planted, sightings sent to scientists and polite letters sent to the council. # 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 Small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 choices choice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 add add VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 6 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 9 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 10 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 12 lights light NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 13 dimmed dim VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 acl _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 wasted waste VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 native native ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 23 planted plant VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 sightings sighting NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 26 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 acl _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 32 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 acl _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 council council NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **add up** *speech: assert* | present | Small choices | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **make** | present | millions of people | choices *= choice* | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset they=Beneficiary light=Product | | 3 | **dim** | participle | | lights and food and native flowers and sightings and polite letters *not said here* | | | night | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **not** **waste** | participle | | food *not said here* | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **plant** | participle | | native flowers *not said here* | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **send** | participle | | sightings *not said here* | | scientists | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to scientist=Destination | | 7 | **send** | participle | | polite letters *not said here* | | the council | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to council=Destination | 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:5`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [What a child can do for nature, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature/4/) - next →: [What a child can do for nature, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature/)