--- title: A child can help nature by leaving a wild corner, picking up litter… — The big biology quiz, part 3: dinosaurs, evoluti… · tree and pragmatics description: A child can help nature by leaving a wild corner, picking up litter safely, feeding birds, recording sightings for scientists and wasting less, and small acts by many people add up. Who acts: child, small acts, many people. 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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 (child, small acts, many people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:300-the-big-biology-quiz-part-3-dinosaurs-evolution-conservation-and-food.lesson:22 # text = A child can help nature by leaving a wild corner, picking up litter safely, feeding birds, recording sightings for scientists and wasting less, and small acts by many people add up. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 300-the-big-biology-quiz-part-3-dinosaurs-evolution-conservation-and-food.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 nature nature NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 by by SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 leaving leave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 picking pick VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 13 up up ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 litter litter NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 safely safely ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct 17 feeding feed VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 conj _ _ 18 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 recording record VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 21 sightings sighting NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 wasting waste VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 conj _ _ 26 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 25 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 27 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 29 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 acts act NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 31 by by ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 34 add add VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 35 up up ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **help** | can | a child | nature | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nature=Beneficiary | | 2 | **leave** | gerund | a child *not said here* | a wild corner | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corner=Theme | | 3 | **pick up** | gerund | a child *not said here* | litter | | | | safely *property* | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent litter=Topic | | 4 | **feed** | gerund | a child *not said here* | | birds | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Recipient | | 5 | **record** | gerund | a child *not said here* | sightings | | | | for scientists | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sighting=Theme | | 6 | **waste** | gerund | a child *not said here* | less | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent less=Patient | | 7 | **add up** *speech: assert* | present | small acts by many people | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **act** | | many people | | | | | | nom act «communication intransitive»: by=agent | 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:300-the-big-biology-quiz-part-3-dinosaurs-evolution-conservation-and-food.lesson:22`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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. 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