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title: The hazel dormouse gets very fat in autumn on hazelnuts and berries… — Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marmots, prair… · tree and pragmatics
description: The hazel dormouse gets very fat in autumn on hazelnuts and berries and sleeps through winter for up to about six months; hazel dormice in Britain have fallen by about half since 2000, reported. Who acts: hazel dormouse, hazel dormice. A sentence of the lesson «Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marm
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# Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marmots, prairie dogs, porcupines, chinchillas and dormice, sentence 17

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The hazel dormouse gets very fat in autumn on hazelnuts and berries and sleeps through winter for up to about six months; hazel dormice in Britain have fallen by about half since 2000, reported.

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**Who acts:** hazel dormouse, hazel dormice · **What happens:** get, sleep, fall, report

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marmots, prairie dogs, porcupines, chinchillas and dormice» 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 (hazel dormouse, hazel dormice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:317-rodents-of-every-kind-squirrels-marmots-prairie-dogs-porcupines-chinchillas-and-dormice.lesson:17
# text = The hazel dormouse gets very fat in autumn on hazelnuts and berries and sleeps through winter for up to about six months; hazel dormice in Britain have fallen by about half since 2000, reported.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 317-rodents-of-every-kind-squirrels-marmots-prairie-dogs-porcupines-chinchillas-and-dormice.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	hazel	hazel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	dormouse	dormouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	hazelnuts	hazelnut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	sleeps	sleep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	through	through	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	up	up	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:advmod
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	about	about	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
24	hazel	hazel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
25	dormice	dormouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	about	about	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	29	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac
33	since	since	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	2000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	obl	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	reported	report	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	36	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4: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 | **get** | present | the hazel dormouse |  |  |  | autumn | fat *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **sleep** | present | the hazel dormouse *not said here* |  |  |  | month; winter |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fall** | present · perfect | hazel dormice in Britain |  |  |  | since 2000 | by half | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by half=Location |
| 4 | **report** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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