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title: A cover on a bucket or a stick leaning inside it lets small animals… — Keeping garden wildlife safe · tree and pragmatics
description: A cover on a bucket or a stick leaning inside it lets small animals stay out or climb out. Who acts: stick, cover, small animals. A sentence of the lesson «Keeping garden wildlife safe» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Keeping garden wildlife safe, sentence 6

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A cover on a bucket or a stick leaning inside it lets small animals stay out or climb out.

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**Who acts:** stick, cover, small animals · **What happens:** lean, let, stay out, climb out · **To what, where:** bucket, small animals

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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 (stick, cover, small animals), 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:6
# text = A cover on a bucket or a stick leaning inside it lets small animals stay out or climb out.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cover	cover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bucket	bucket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	leaning	lean	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
16	out	out	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lean** | gerund | a stick *not said here* |  |  | bucket |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent inside it=Location |
| 2 | **let** | present | a cover on a bucket or a stick | small animals |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stay out** | infinitive | small animals *not said here* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **climb out** | infinitive | small animals *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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: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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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