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title: Badgers do not truly hibernate, but in cold weather they stay underg… — The real animals of the Wild Wood: the badger, t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Badgers do not truly hibernate, but in cold weather they stay underground for days, sleeping a lot and living on the fat they built up in autumn, a bit like the Badger who does nothing «strenuous» in winter. Who acts: Badgers, setts, Badger. A sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the Wild Woo
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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 8

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Badgers do not truly hibernate, but in cold weather they stay underground for days, sleeping a lot and living on the fat they built up in autumn, a bit like the Badger who does nothing «strenuous» in winter.

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**Who acts:** Badgers, setts, Badger · **What happens:** not hibernate, stay, sleep, live, build up, do · **To what, where:** bit, cold weather, lot, fat, nothing

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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 (Badgers, setts, Badger), 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:8
# text = Badgers do not truly hibernate, but in cold weather they stay underground for days, sleeping a lot and living on the fat they built up in autumn, a bit like the Badger who does nothing «strenuous» in winter.
# 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 ×5
1	Badgers	badger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	hibernate	hibernate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	underground	underground	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advcl
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
33	like	like	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	Badger	badger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
37	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	_
38	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	37	obj	_	_
39	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	40	punct	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=41:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
40	strenuous	strenuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=41:amod
41	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	40	punct	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=41:nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hibernate** | present · do-support | Badgers | a bit like the Badger |  |  |  | truly *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location |
| 2 | **stay** | present | setts *= sett* |  |  | cold weather | day | underground *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in weather=Location |
| 3 | **sleep** | gerund | setts *= sett* *not said here* | a lot |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme |
| 4 | **live** | gerund | setts *= sett* *not said here* |  |  | the fat |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on fat=Location |
| 5 | **build up** | past | setts *= sett* | the fat *not said here* |  |  | autumn |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer fat=Patient |
| 6 | **do** | present | the Badger | nothing |  |  | winter |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |

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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): R5-strong ×5. **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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