--- title: Nature is lovely to look at but not always to touch: lambs in spring… — Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries… · tree and pragmatics description: Nature is lovely to look at but not always to touch: lambs in spring fields, blackberries on a hedge, cacti in the desert and fire ant nests all need care. Who acts: Nature, lambs. A sentence of the lesson «Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries, cacti, fire ants and bee stings» of the eve --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants/6/) [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/) / [Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, bl…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants/) / 6 # Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries, cacti, fire ants and bee stings, sentence 6 Nature is lovely to look at but not always to touch: lambs in spring fields, blackberries on a hedge, cacti in the desert and fire ant nests all need care. **Who acts:** Nature, lambs · **What happens:** be, look, not touch, need · **To what, where:** care This is a sentence of the lesson «Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries, cacti, fire ants and bee stings» 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 (Nature, lambs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants.lesson:6 # text = Nature is lovely to look at but not always to touch: lambs in spring fields, blackberries on a hedge, cacti in the desert and fire ant nests all need care. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Nature nature NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:csubj 6 at at ADP IN _ 5 obl _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 9 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 11 advmod _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 touch touch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 13 lambs lamb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 blackberries blackberry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 hedge hedge NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 cacti cactus NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 desert desert NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 29 ant ant NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 nests nest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 31 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 32 advmod _ _ 32 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 33 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Nature | | | | | lovely *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **look** | to-infinitive | Nature *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **not** **touch** | to-infinitive | Nature *not said here* | | | | | always *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **need** | present | lambs in spring fields and blackberries on a hedge and cacti in the desert ant nests and fire | care | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot care=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:everyday:326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants.lesson:6`. **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): 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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