--- title: Badgers are very clean: they drag in fresh grass and bracken for bed… — The real animals of the Wild Wood: the badger, t… · tree and pragmatics description: Badgers are very clean: they drag in fresh grass and bracken for bedding and dig special toilet pits away from the sett. Who acts: Badgers, setts. 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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), 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:9 # text = Badgers are very clean: they drag in fresh grass and bracken for bedding and dig special toilet pits away from the 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 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 very very ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 clean clean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 drag drag VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 bracken bracken NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 bedding bedding NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 dig dig VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 17 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 toilet toilet NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 pits pit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 20 away away ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod 21 from from ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 sett sett NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Badgers | | | | | clean *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **drag** | present | setts *= sett* | | | fresh grass for bedding and bracken | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in grass=Location | | 3 | **dig** | present | setts *= sett* *not said here* | special toilet pits | | | | away *property* | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pit=Theme | 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:9`. **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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