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title: Meanwhile the hedgehog under the shed is so deeply asleep that its h… — The garden in winter: bare trees, tracks in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile the hedgehog under the shed is so deeply asleep that its heart beats about twenty times a minute instead of nearly two hundred, while the squirrel is wide awake, digging up nuts and raiding the bird feeder. Who acts: hedgehog, heart, squirrel. A sentence of the lesson «The garden in winter
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# The garden in winter: bare trees, tracks in the snow and who sleeps where, sentence 2

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Meanwhile the hedgehog under the shed is so deeply asleep that its heart beats about twenty times a minute instead of nearly two hundred, while the squirrel is wide awake, digging up nuts and raiding the bird feeder.

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**Who acts:** hedgehog, heart, squirrel · **What happens:** be, beat about, dig up, raid · **To what, where:** nuts, bird feeder

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The garden in winter: bare trees, tracks in the snow and who sleeps where» 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 (hedgehog, heart, squirrel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:336-the-garden-in-winter-bare-trees-tracks-in-the-snow-and-who-sleeps-where.lesson:2
# text = Meanwhile the hedgehog under the shed is so deeply asleep that its heart beats about twenty times a minute instead of nearly two hundred, while the squirrel is wide awake, digging up nuts and raiding the bird feeder.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 336-the-garden-in-winter-bare-trees-tracks-in-the-snow-and-who-sleeps-where.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	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	under	under	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	shed	shed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	deeply	deeply	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	beats	beat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
15	about	about	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:unmarked	_	_
20	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	24	case	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	wide	wide	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	digging	dig	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	_
34	up	up	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	raiding	raid	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	conj	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	feeder	feeder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **is** | present | the hedgehog under the shed |  |  |  |  | asleep, deeply, meanwhile *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **beat about** | present | hedgehog's heart |  |  |  | time | instead two hundred | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | the squirrel |  |  |  |  | awake, wide *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **dig up** | gerund | the squirrel *not said here* | nuts |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent nut=Theme |
| 5 | **raid** | gerund | the squirrel *not said here* | the bird feeder |  |  |  |  | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent feeder=Location |

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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:336-the-garden-in-winter-bare-trees-tracks-in-the-snow-and-who-sleeps-where.lesson:2`.

**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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