--- title: A bucket of water is a pond with steep slippery walls: a small anima… — Keeping garden wildlife safe · tree and pragmatics description: A bucket of water is a pond with steep slippery walls: a small animal that falls in cannot climb out, unless there is a cover or a stick to climb up. Who acts: bucket, small animal, cover. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bucket, small animal, cover), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:072-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe.lesson:1 # text = A bucket of water is a pond with steep slippery walls: a small animal that falls in cannot climb out, unless there is a cover or a stick to climb up. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 072-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe.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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 bucket bucket NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 pond pond NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 steep steep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 slippery slippery ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 16 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 in in ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 climb climb VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ _ 22 out out ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 unless unless SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 26 expl _ _ 26 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 cover cover NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 29 or or CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 stick stick NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 climb climb VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 acl _ _ 34 up up ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a bucket of water | a pond | | | | with steep slippery walls | tree rules | | 2 | **fall in** | present | a small animal | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **not** **climb out** | can | a small animal | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **does** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a cover or a stick | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **climb up** | to-infinitive | a cover or a stick *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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:072-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe.lesson:1`. **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/). - ← previous: [Keeping garden wildlife safe, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/72-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe/0/) - next →: [Keeping garden wildlife safe, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/72-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/72-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe/)