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title: Hedgehogs get ill from milk; a shallow dish of water or meaty cat fo… — Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours · tree and pragmatics
description: Hedgehogs get ill from milk; a shallow dish of water or meaty cat food is safe for them. Who acts: Hedgehogs, shallow dish. A sentence of the lesson «Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours, sentence 17

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Hedgehogs get ill from milk; a shallow dish of water or meaty cat food is safe for them.

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**Who acts:** Hedgehogs, shallow dish · **What happens:** get, be

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours» 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 (Hedgehogs, shallow dish), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:069-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours.lesson:17
# text = Hedgehogs get ill from milk; a shallow dish of water or meaty cat food is safe for them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 069-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours.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	Hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	shallow	shallow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	meaty	meaty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **get** | present | Hedgehogs |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | present | a shallow dish of water or meaty cat food |  |  |  |  | for Hedgehogs *= hedgehog*; safe *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:everyday:069-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours.lesson:17`.

**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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