--- title: The thorny devil has tiny grooves between its spines that pull water… — The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, tho… · tree and pragmatics description: The thorny devil has tiny grooves between its spines that pull water from damp sand up to its mouth, and it has a false head on its neck that it shows when attacked. Who acts: thorny devil, spines, devil, it. A sentence of the lesson «The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, thorny devils and ru --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/165-the-australian-outback-kangaroos-emus-thorny-devils-and-runaway-toads/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The Australian outback: red kangaroos,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/165-the-australian-outback-kangaroos-emus-thorny-devils-and-runaway-toads/) / 8 # The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, thorny devils and runaway camels and toads, sentence 8 The thorny devil has tiny grooves between its spines that pull water from damp sand up to its mouth, and it has a false head on its neck that it shows when attacked. **Who acts:** thorny devil, spines, devil, it · **What happens:** have, pull, show, attack · **To what, where:** tiny grooves, water, damp sand, false head, neck This is a sentence of the lesson «The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, thorny devils and runaway camels and toads» 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 (thorny devil, spines, devil, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:165-the-australian-outback-kangaroos-emus-thorny-devils-and-runaway-toads.lesson:8 # text = The thorny devil has tiny grooves between its spines that pull water from damp sand up to its mouth, and it has a false head on its neck that it shows when attacked. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 165-the-australian-outback-kangaroos-emus-thorny-devils-and-runaway-toads.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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 thorny thorny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 devil devil NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 grooves groove NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 between between ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 spines spine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 pull pull VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 damp damp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 up up ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 false false ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 obj _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 33 when when SCONJ WRB _ 34 mark _ _ 34 attacked attack VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 advcl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | the thorny devil | tiny grooves | | | | between devil's spines | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent groove=Patient | | 2 | **pull** | present | devil's spines | water | | damp sand | | to devil's mouth | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme from sand=Initial\_Location to mouth=Destination | | 3 | **have** | present | devil | a false head | | devil's neck | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | | 4 | **show** | present | it | a false head | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient | | 5 | **attack** | participle | | | | | | | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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:biology:165-the-australian-outback-kangaroos-emus-thorny-devils-and-runaway-toads.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): 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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