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title: Most of these spring jobs are about babies: eggs, nests and new fami… — The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn, queen bum… · tree and pragmatics
description: Most of these spring jobs are about babies: eggs, nests and new families, so the kindest thing a person can do is watch from a little way off and help without getting in the way. Who acts: Most, person, kindest thing. A sentence of the lesson «The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn, queen bumblebees 
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# The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn, queen bumblebees and nesting birds, sentence 3

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Most of these spring jobs are about babies: eggs, nests and new families, so the kindest thing a person can do is watch from a little way off and help without getting in the way.

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**Who acts:** Most, person, kindest thing · **What happens:** be, do, help, get · **To what, where:** kindest thing, little way, way

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn, queen bumblebees and nesting birds» 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 (Most, person, kindest thing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:333-the-garden-in-spring-buds-frogspawn-queen-bumblebees-and-nesting-birds.lesson:3
# text = Most of these spring jobs are about babies: eggs, nests and new families, so the kindest thing a person can do is watch from a little way off and help without getting in the way.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 333-the-garden-in-spring-buds-frogspawn-queen-bumblebees-and-nesting-birds.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	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	jobs	job	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	appos	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	nests	nest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	kindest	kind	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	amod	_	_
20	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	off	off	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
34	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
35	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	advcl	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **is** | present | Most of this spring jobs |  |  |  |  | about babies | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | can | a person | the kindest thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | present | the kindest thing |  |  | a little way |  | off, watch *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **help** | infinitive | the kindest thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **get** | gerund | the kindest thing *not said here* |  |  | the way |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=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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**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:333-the-garden-in-spring-buds-frogspawn-queen-bumblebees-and-nesting-birds.lesson:3`.

**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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