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title: Wild boar dig up the forest floor with their snouts for roots and wo… — Mushrooms and creatures to avoid in the woods: d… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wild boar dig up the forest floor with their snouts for roots and worms; they usually avoid people, but a mother with stripy piglets may charge, so go back the way you came and never get between a mother and her young. Who acts: Wild boar, nests, mother, you. A sentence of the lesson «Mushrooms and 
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# Mushrooms and creatures to avoid in the woods: death caps, adders, ticks and hornets, sentence 21

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Wild boar dig up the forest floor with their snouts for roots and worms; they usually avoid people, but a mother with stripy piglets may charge, so go back the way you came and never get between a mother and her young.

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**Who acts:** Wild boar, nests, mother, you · **What happens:** dig up, avoid, charge, go back, come, not get · **To what, where:** forest floor, people, way

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Mushrooms and creatures to avoid in the woods: death caps, adders, ticks and hornets» 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 (Wild boar, nests, mother, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:393-mushrooms-and-creatures-to-avoid-in-the-woods-death-caps-adders-ticks-and-hornets.lesson:21
# text = Wild boar dig up the forest floor with their snouts for roots and worms; they usually avoid people, but a mother with stripy piglets may charge, so go back the way you came and never get between a mother and her young.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 393-mushrooms-and-creatures-to-avoid-in-the-woods-death-caps-adders-ticks-and-hornets.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	boar	boar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dig	dig	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	snouts	snout	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	worms	worm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	avoid	avoid	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
19	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	stripy	stripy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	piglets	piglet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	charge	charge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=28:conj
32	back	back	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl:unmarked	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
39	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
40	between	between	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	young	young	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=39:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **dig up** | present | Wild boar | the forest floor |  |  |  | with nests's snouts; for roots and worms | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.instsrument»: agent=Agent floor=Theme with snout=Instrument |
| 2 | **avoid** | present | nests *= nest* | people |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent people=Location |
| 3 | **charge** | may | a mother with stripy piglets |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **go back** | infinitive | Wild boar *not said here* | the way |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **come** | past | you | the way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **get** | infinitive | Wild boar *not said here* |  |  |  |  | between a mother and mother's young | 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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**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1. **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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