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title: Loose garden netting tangles birds and hedgehogs, and slug pellets a… — Keeping garden wildlife safe · tree and pragmatics
description: Loose garden netting tangles birds and hedgehogs, and slug pellets and rat poison can kill pets and wild animals, so children never touch them. Who acts: Loose garden netting, slug pellets, children. A sentence of the lesson «Keeping garden wildlife safe» of the everyday course of Mova's primary sch
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# Keeping garden wildlife safe, sentence 3

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Loose garden netting tangles birds and hedgehogs, and slug pellets and rat poison can kill pets and wild animals, so children never touch them.

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**Who acts:** Loose garden netting, slug pellets, children · **What happens:** tangle, kill, not touch · **To what, where:** birds, pets

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Keeping garden wildlife safe» 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 (Loose garden netting, slug pellets, children), 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:3
# text = Loose garden netting tangles birds and hedgehogs, and slug pellets and rat poison can kill pets and wild animals, so children never touch them.
# 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	Loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	netting	netting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	tangles	tangle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
5	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	slug	slug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	pellets	pellet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
17	pets	pet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
24	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	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 | **tangle** | present | Loose garden netting | birds and hedgehogs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **kill** | can | slug pellets and rat poison | pets and wild animals |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pet=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **touch** | infinitive | children | pets *= pet* |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme |

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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:072-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe.lesson:3`.

**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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