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title: A summer garden is a busy little town of deals and hunts: some anima… — The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds… · tree and pragmatics
description: A summer garden is a busy little town of deals and hunts: some animals farm, some hunt, and some just grow faster than anyone can eat them. Who acts: summer garden, animals, some, anyone. A sentence of the lesson «The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds and flying ant day» of the biology co
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# The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds and flying ant day, sentence 0

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A summer garden is a busy little town of deals and hunts: some animals farm, some hunt, and some just grow faster than anyone can eat them.

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**Who acts:** summer garden, animals, some, anyone · **What happens:** be, farm, hunt, grow, eat · **To what, where:** busy little town, animals

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds and flying ant day» 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 (summer garden, animals, some, anyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day.lesson:0
# text = A summer garden is a busy little town of deals and hunts: some animals farm, some hunt, and some just grow faster than anyone can eat them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	deals	deal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	hunts	hunt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	farm	farm	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	nsubj	_	_
19	hunt	hunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	nsubj	_	_
23	just	just	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
25	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	xcomp	_	_
26	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	29	nsubj	_	_
28	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	.	.	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 a** | present | a summer garden | a busy little town |  |  |  | of deals and hunts | tree rules |
| 2 | **farm** | present | some animals |  |  |  |  |  | vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hunt** | present | some |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **grow** | infinitive | some |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **eat** | can | anyone | animals *= animal* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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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:334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day.lesson:0`.

**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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