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title: Slug pellets can harm hedgehogs and birds, and the most harmful kind… — The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Slug pellets can harm hedgehogs and birds, and the most harmful kind was banned in Britain. Who acts: Slug pellets. A sentence of the lesson «The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes and slugs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes and slugs, sentence 14

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Slug pellets can harm hedgehogs and birds, and the most harmful kind was banned in Britain.

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**Who acts:** Slug pellets · **What happens:** harm, ban · **To what, where:** hedgehogs, harmful kind, Britain

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes and slugs» 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 (Slug pellets), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:338-the-vegetable-patch-peas-potatoes-tomatoes-and-slugs.lesson:14
# text = Slug pellets can harm hedgehogs and birds, and the most harmful kind was banned in Britain.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 338-the-vegetable-patch-peas-potatoes-tomatoes-and-slugs.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	Slug	slug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	pellets	pellet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	harm	harm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	12	advmod	_	_
12	harmful	harmful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	banned	ban	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	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 | **harm** | can | Slug pellets | hedgehogs and birds |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hedgehog=Experiencer |
| 2 | **ban** | past · passive |  | the harmful kind |  | Britain |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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:338-the-vegetable-patch-peas-potatoes-tomatoes-and-slugs.lesson:14`.

**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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