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title: Cut a small hole at the bottom of a garden fence and you have just b… — Conservation: how people help animals come back · tree and pragmatics
description: Cut a small hole at the bottom of a garden fence and you have just built part of a hedgehog highway; picking up fishing line on a beach clean is real conservation too. Who acts: you, picking. A sentence of the lesson «Conservation: how people help animals come back» of the biology course of Mova's p
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# Conservation: how people help animals come back, sentence 2

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Cut a small hole at the bottom of a garden fence and you have just built part of a hedgehog highway; picking up fishing line on a beach clean is real conservation too.

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**Who acts:** you, picking · **What happens:** cut, build, pick up, be · **To what, where:** small hole, bottom, part, fishing line, beach clean, real conservation

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Conservation: how people help animals come back» 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, picking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:078-conservation-animals-come-back.lesson:2
# text = Cut a small hole at the bottom of a garden fence and you have just built part of a hedgehog highway; picking up fishing line on a beach clean is real conservation too.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 078-conservation-animals-come-back.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	Cut	cut	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	fence	fence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	just	just	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
17	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	highway	highway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	picking	pick	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	csubj	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	fishing	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	clean	clean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	conservation	conservation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
34	too	too	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **cut** | imperative | you *not said here* | a small hole |  | the bottom of a garden fence |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product |
| 2 | **build** | present · perfect | you | part of a hedgehog highway |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Product |
| 3 | **pick up** | gerund |  | fishing line |  | a beach clean |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Topic |
| 4 | **is a** | present | picking | real conservation |  |  |  |  | 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:078-conservation-animals-come-back.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): 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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