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title: A bonfire pile should be checked for hedgehogs just before it is lit… — Keeping garden wildlife safe · tree and pragmatics
description: A bonfire pile should be checked for hedgehogs just before it is lit, or moved to a new spot. 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 8

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A bonfire pile should be checked for hedgehogs just before it is lit, or moved to a new spot.

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**What happens:** check, lit, move · **To what, where:** bonfire pile, pile, new spot

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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: 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:8
# text = A bonfire pile should be checked for hedgehogs just before it is lit, or moved to a new spot.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bonfire	bonfire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	pile	pile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	checked	check	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	just	just	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:cop
13	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:advcl|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	moved	move	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **check** | should · passive |  | a bonfire pile |  |  |  | for hedgehogs | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme for hedgehog=Attribute |
| 2 | **lit** | present · passive |  | pile |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **move** | participle |  |  |  | a new spot |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to spot=Trajectory |

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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:8`.

**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, R8-pos-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/).

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