--- title: Porcupines cannot shoot their quills; the quills come off easily whe… — Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, ele… · tree and pragmatics description: Porcupines cannot shoot their quills; the quills come off easily when touched and stick into the attacker, and lions and leopards are sometimes badly hurt by them. Who acts: Porcupines, quills. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Porcupines, quills), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:191-myths-and-cartoons-put-right.lesson:12 # text = Porcupines cannot shoot their quills; the quills come off easily when touched and stick into the attacker, and lions and leopards are sometimes badly hurt by them. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 191-myths-and-cartoons-put-right.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Porcupines porcupine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 shoot shoot VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 quills quill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 quills quill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 11 off off ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 12 easily easily ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advmod 13 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 14 touched touch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 advcl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 stick stick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 17 into into ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 attacker attacker NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 22 lions lion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 leopards leopard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ _ 25 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 26 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 28 advmod _ _ 27 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 28 advmod _ _ 28 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 conj _ _ 29 by by ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **shoot** | can | Porcupines | Porcupines's quills | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quill=Theme | | 2 | **come off** | present | the quills | | | | | easily *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **touch** | participle | the quills *not said here* | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **stick** | infinitive | the quills *not said here* | | | the attacker | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into attacker=Destination | | 5 | **hurt** | present · passive | Porcupines *= porcupine* | lions and leopards | | | | badly, sometimes *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Patient | 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. 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