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title: Picture a hedgehog curled under a pile of leaves in November; its he… — Sleep and hibernation · tree and pragmatics
description: Picture a hedgehog curled under a pile of leaves in November; its heart drops from about 190 beats a minute to around 20, and it stays almost switched off until spring, which is why bonfire piles must be checked before lighting. Who acts: you, heart. A sentence of the lesson «Sleep and hibernation» 
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# Sleep and hibernation, sentence 2

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Picture a hedgehog curled under a pile of leaves in November; its heart drops from about 190 beats a minute to around 20, and it stays almost switched off until spring, which is why bonfire piles must be checked before lighting.

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**Who acts:** you, heart · **What happens:** picture, curl, drop, stay, switch off, be · **To what, where:** hedgehog, pile, 190 beats, spring

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sleep and hibernation» 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 (you, heart), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:055-sleep-and-hibernation.lesson:2
# text = Picture a hedgehog curled under a pile of leaves in November; its heart drops from about 190 beats a minute to around 20, and it stays almost switched off until spring, which is why bonfire piles must be checked before lighting.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 055-sleep-and-hibernation.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Picture	picture	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	curled	curl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	under	under	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	pile	pile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	November	November	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	drops	drop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	about	about	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	190	190	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	beats	beat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	around	around	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
29	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	switched	switch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	xcomp	_	_
31	off	off	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	until	until	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
35	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	nsubj	_	_
36	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
37	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	42	advmod	_	_
38	bonfire	bonfire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	piles	pile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nsubj:pass	_	_
40	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
41	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	aux:pass	_	_
42	checked	check	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl:relcl	_	_
43	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=44:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
44	lighting	lighting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=42:obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
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## 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 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | a hedgehog |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent hedgehog=Theme |
| 2 | **curl** | participle |  | a hedgehog *not said here* |  | a pile of leaves in November |  |  | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **drop** | present | animal's heart |  |  | 190 beats |  | to 20 | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent from beat=Destination to 20=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **stay** | present | heart |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **switch off** | participle | heart *not said here* |  |  |  | spring | almost *property* | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **is** | must · present · passive |  | spring |  |  |  | check *property* | tree rules |

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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:055-sleep-and-hibernation.lesson:2`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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