--- title: Badgers are protected by law in Britain, so nobody may harm a badger… — The real animals of the Wild Wood: the badger, t… · tree and pragmatics description: Badgers are protected by law in Britain, so nobody may harm a badger or block or dig into a sett. Who acts: law, nobody. A sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the Wild Wood: the badger, the stoat, the weasel, the ferret, field-mice and hedgehogs in winter» of the biology course of Mova's pri --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/405-the-real-animals-of-the-wild-wood-badger-stoat-weasel-ferret-field-mice-and-winter-hedgehogs/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The real animals of the Wild Wood: the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/405-the-real-animals-of-the-wild-wood-badger-stoat-weasel-ferret-field-mice-and-winter-hedgehogs/) / 10 # The real animals of the Wild Wood: the badger, the stoat, the weasel, the ferret, field-mice and hedgehogs in winter, sentence 10 Badgers are protected by law in Britain, so nobody may harm a badger or block or dig into a sett. **Who acts:** law, nobody · **What happens:** protect, harm, dig · **To what, where:** Badgers, Britain, badger This is a sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the Wild Wood: the badger, the stoat, the weasel, the ferret, field-mice and hedgehogs in winter» 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 (law, nobody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:405-the-real-animals-of-the-wild-wood-badger-stoat-weasel-ferret-field-mice-and-winter-hedgehogs.lesson:10 # text = Badgers are protected by law in Britain, so nobody may harm a badger or block or dig into a sett. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 405-the-real-animals-of-the-wild-wood-badger-stoat-weasel-ferret-field-mice-and-winter-hedgehogs.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Badgers badger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 protected protect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 by by ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:agent _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:cc|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_ 10 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 12 nsubj _ _ 11 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 harm harm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 badger badger NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 block block NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 dig dig VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 19 into into ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 sett sett NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **protect** | present · passive | law | Badgers | | Britain | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary | | 2 | **harm** | may | nobody | a badger or block | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus badger=Experiencer | | 3 | **dig** | infinitive | nobody *not said here* | | | | | into a sett | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent into sett=Patient | 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. **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:405-the-real-animals-of-the-wild-wood-badger-stoat-weasel-ferret-field-mice-and-winter-hedgehogs.lesson:10`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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