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title: A North American porcupine has about 30,000 quills, and it rattles t… — More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcup… · tree and pragmatics
description: A North American porcupine has about 30,000 quills, and it rattles them and stamps as a warning first. Who acts: North American porcupine, porcupine. A sentence of the lesson «More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcupine arrows, toads and falling cats» of the biology course of Mova's primary 
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# More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcupine arrows, toads and falling cats, sentence 8

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A North American porcupine has about 30,000 quills, and it rattles them and stamps as a warning first.

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**Who acts:** North American porcupine, porcupine · **What happens:** have, rattle, stamp · **To what, where:** 30,000 quills, quills

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This is a sentence of the lesson «More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcupine arrows, toads and falling cats» of the biology 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 (North American porcupine, porcupine), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons.lesson:8
# text = A North American porcupine has about 30,000 quills, and it rattles them and stamps as a warning first.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	porcupine	porcupine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	30,000	30,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	quills	quill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	rattles	rattle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	stamps	stamp	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	15	advmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **have** | present | a North American porcupine | 30,000 quills |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quill=Patient |
| 2 | **rattle** | present | porcupine | quills *= quill* |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **stamp** | present | porcupine *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a warning; first *property* | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent as warning=Attribute |

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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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