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title: A shallow dish of water with a stone in it helps birds, bees and hed… — What a child can do for nature · tree and pragmatics
description: A shallow dish of water with a stone in it helps birds, bees and hedgehogs in dry summers; the stone lets insects climb out, and the dish should be cleaned often, because dirty water spreads disease; never give hedgehogs milk, which upsets their stomachs. Who acts: shallow dish, stone, insects, dirt
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# What a child can do for nature, sentence 8

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A shallow dish of water with a stone in it helps birds, bees and hedgehogs in dry summers; the stone lets insects climb out, and the dish should be cleaned often, because dirty water spreads disease; never give hedgehogs milk, which upsets their stomachs.

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**Who acts:** shallow dish, stone, insects, dirty water, milk · **What happens:** help, let, climb out, clean, spread, not give · **To what, where:** birds, insects, dish, disease, milk, hedgehogs

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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 (shallow dish, stone, insects, dirty water), 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:8
# text = A shallow dish of water with a stone in it helps birds, bees and hedgehogs in dry summers; the stone lets insects climb out, and the dish should be cleaned often, because dirty water spreads disease; never give hedgehogs milk, which upsets their stomachs.
# 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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	shallow	shallow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	_
11	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	summers	summer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj
24	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	cleaned	clean	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj
34	often	often	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
37	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	spreads	spread	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj
40	disease	disease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
41	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
42	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	43	advmod	_	_
43	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	conj	_	_
44	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=43:obj
45	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	48	nsubj	_	_
48	upsets	upset	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	acl:relcl	_	_
49	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	stomachs	stomach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obj	_	_
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present | a shallow dish of water with a stone in stone |  | birds and bees and hedgehogs |  | summer |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **let** | present | the stone | insects |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **climb out** | infinitive | insects *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **clean** | should · passive |  | the dish |  |  |  | often *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **spread** | present | dirty water | disease |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location disease=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **give** | infinitive | dirty water *not said here* | milk | hedgehogs |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent hedgehog=Recipient milk=Theme |
| 7 | **upset** | present | milk | dish's stomachs |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus stomach=Experiencer |

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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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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