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title: Long grass, wildflowers and a log pile give homes to insects, frogs… — What a child can do for nature · tree and pragmatics
description: Long grass, wildflowers and a log pile give homes to insects, frogs and hedgehogs, so a wild corner holds more life than a tidy lawn. Who acts: Long grass, wild 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 a
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# What a child can do for nature, sentence 6

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Long grass, wildflowers and a log pile give homes to insects, frogs and hedgehogs, so a wild corner holds more life than a tidy lawn.

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**Who acts:** Long grass, wild corner · **What happens:** give, hold · **To what, where:** homes, insects, more life

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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 (Long grass, wild 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:6
# text = Long grass, wildflowers and a log pile give homes to insects, frogs and hedgehogs, so a wild corner holds more life than a tidy lawn.
# 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	Long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	wildflowers	wildflower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	pile	pile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
9	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
23	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	amod	_	_
24	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	than	than	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	tidy	tidy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	lawn	lawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **give** | present | Long grass and wildflowers and a log pile | homes | insects and frogs and hedgehogs |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent home=Theme to insect=Recipient |
| 2 | **hold** | present | a wild corner | more life |  |  |  | than a tidy lawn | vn keep-15.2 «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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**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:6`.

**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/).

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