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title: Hibernation is a deep winter rest that tortoises, hedgehogs and some… — When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters and budgies · tree and pragmatics
description: Hibernation is a deep winter rest that tortoises, hedgehogs and some other animals take: the animal still breathes slowly and its heart still beats; a vet can check if you are worried. Who acts: Hibernation, tortoises, animal, heart. A sentence of the lesson «When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters an
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# When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters and budgies, sentence 12

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Hibernation is a deep winter rest that tortoises, hedgehogs and some other animals take: the animal still breathes slowly and its heart still beats; a vet can check if you are worried.

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**Who acts:** Hibernation, tortoises, animal, heart, vet, you · **What happens:** be, take, breathe, beat, check · **To what, where:** deep winter rest

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This is a sentence of the lesson «When a small pet dies: fish, hamsters and budgies» of the religion ethics 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 (Hibernation, tortoises, animal, heart), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:055-when-a-small-pet-dies-fish-hamsters-and-budgies.lesson:12
# text = Hibernation is a deep winter rest that tortoises, hedgehogs and some other animals take: the animal still breathes slowly and its heart still beats; a vet can check if you are worried.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 055-when-a-small-pet-dies-fish-hamsters-and-budgies.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	Hibernation	hibernation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
8	tortoises	tortoise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
13	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
15	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	still	still	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	breathes	breathe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
21	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	still	still	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	beats	beat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	vet	vet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	parataxis	_	_
32	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	worried	worried	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	advcl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is a** | present | Hibernation | a deep winter rest |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | present | tortoises and hedgehogs and some other animals | a deep winter rest |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 3 | **breathe** | present | the animal |  |  |  | still | slowly *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **beat** | present | Hibernation's heart |  |  |  | still |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **check** | can | a vet |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  | worried *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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.

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