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title: Real badgers live in family groups of about five or six in a sett, a… — The real animals of the Wild Wood: the badger, t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real badgers live in family groups of about five or six in a sett, a set of tunnels and chambers that can be used by badgers for a hundred years or more. Who acts: Real badgers, badgers. A sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the Wild Wood: the badger, the stoat, the weasel, the ferret, field
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# The real animals of the Wild Wood: the badger, the stoat, the weasel, the ferret, field-mice and hedgehogs in winter, sentence 7

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Real badgers live in family groups of about five or six in a sett, a set of tunnels and chambers that can be used by badgers for a hundred years or more.

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**Who acts:** Real badgers, badgers · **What happens:** live, use · **To what, where:** family groups, set

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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 (Real badgers, badgers), 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:7
# text = Real badgers live in family groups of about five or six in a sett, a set of tunnels and chambers that can be used by badgers for a hundred years or more.
# 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): no change
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	badgers	badger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sett	sett	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	tunnels	tunnel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	chambers	chamber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	badgers	badger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl:agent	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
32	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	31	conj	_	_
34	.	.	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 | **live** | present | Real badgers |  |  | family groups of five |  | in a sett and a set of tunnels and chambers | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in group=Location |
| 2 | **use** | can · passive | badgers | a set of tunnels and chambers |  |  | year |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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:405-the-real-animals-of-the-wild-wood-badger-stoat-weasel-ferret-field-mice-and-winter-hedgehogs.lesson:7`.

**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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