--- title: Leave rocks in a stream where they are, because they are homes for i… — Litter and caring for nature · tree and pragmatics description: Leave rocks in a stream where they are, because they are homes for insects and fish. Who acts: you, rocks. A sentence of the lesson «Litter and caring for nature» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/239-litter-and-caring-for-nature/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Litter and caring for nature](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/239-litter-and-caring-for-nature/) / 14 # Litter and caring for nature, sentence 14 Leave rocks in a stream where they are, because they are homes for insects and fish. **Who acts:** you, rocks · **What happens:** leave, be · **To what, where:** rocks, stream, homes This is a sentence of the lesson «Litter and caring for nature» of the everyday 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, rocks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:239-litter-and-caring-for-nature.lesson:14 # text = Leave rocks in a stream where they are, because they are homes for insects and fish. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 239-litter-and-caring-for-nature.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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Leave leave VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 stream stream NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 8 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:advcl 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nsubj 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:cop 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 because because SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:case 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 homes home NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 advcl _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:obl 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 18 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | imperative | you *not said here* | rocks | | a stream | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent rock=Theme in stream=Location | | 2 | **is a** | present | rocks *= rock* | homes | | | | for insects and fish | tree rules | 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:everyday:239-litter-and-caring-for-nature.lesson:14`. **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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Litter and caring for nature, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/239-litter-and-caring-for-nature/13/) - next →: [Litter and caring for nature, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/239-litter-and-caring-for-nature/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/239-litter-and-caring-for-nature/)