--- title: A pile of sticks waiting for a bonfire looks like a perfect hiding p… — Keeping garden wildlife safe · tree and pragmatics description: A pile of sticks waiting for a bonfire looks like a perfect hiding place to a hedgehog, so the pile is checked, or better moved, just before it is lit. Who acts: pile. 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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 (pile), 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:2 # text = A pile of sticks waiting for a bonfire looks like a perfect hiding place to a hedgehog, so the pile is checked, or better moved, just before it is lit. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 pile pile NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 sticks stick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 5 waiting wait VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:acl 6 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 bonfire bonfire NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 like like ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 perfect perfect ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 hiding hiding NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 hedgehog hedgehog NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 pile pile NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 checked check VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 parataxis _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 or or CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 better good ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 27 advmod _ _ 27 moved move VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 just just ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 30 before before SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux:pass _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:cop 33 lit lit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 34 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | gerund | a pile of sticks *not said here* | | | | | for a bonfire | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **look** | present | a pile of sticks | | | | | like a perfect hiding place to a hedgehog | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **check** | present · passive | | the pile | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **move** | participle | | | | | | good *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **lit** | present · passive | | pile | | | | | 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:072-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/72-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe/1/) - next →: [Keeping garden wildlife safe, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/72-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/72-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe/)