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title: Hedgehogs often cross roads at night, and many are hit by cars; peop… — Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hedgehogs often cross roads at night, and many are hit by cars; people make holes in garden fences to give them safer paths. Who acts: Hedgehogs, people. A sentence of the lesson «Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too soon»» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its d
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# Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too soon», sentence 8

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Hedgehogs often cross roads at night, and many are hit by cars; people make holes in garden fences to give them safer paths.

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**Who acts:** Hedgehogs, people · **What happens:** cross, hit, make, give · **To what, where:** roads, many, holes, garden fences, safer paths, people

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too soon»» 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 (Hedgehogs, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:057-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon.lesson:8
# text = Hedgehogs often cross roads at night, and many are hit by cars; people make holes in garden fences to give them safer paths.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 057-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	cross	cross	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	hit	hit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
17	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	fences	fence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:acl
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	iobj	_	_
24	safer	safe	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	amod	_	_
25	paths	path	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **cross** | present | Hedgehogs | roads |  |  | night | often *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient |
| 2 | **hit** | present · passive |  | many |  |  |  | by cars | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme by car=Destination |
| 3 | **make** | present | people | holes |  | garden fences |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Product |
| 4 | **give** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | safer paths | people |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient path=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:religion-ethics:057-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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