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title: A hedgehog wears about five thousand spines, and each one is a stiff… — Hedgehogs: spines, hibernation and how to help t… · tree and pragmatics
description: A hedgehog wears about five thousand spines, and each one is a stiff, hollow hair. Who acts: hedgehog, one. A sentence of the lesson «Hedgehogs: spines, hibernation and how to help them» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hedgehogs: spines, hibernation and how to help them, sentence 0

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A hedgehog wears about five thousand spines, and each one is a stiff, hollow hair.

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**Who acts:** hedgehog, one · **What happens:** wear, be · **To what, where:** thousand spines, stiff hollow hair

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Hedgehogs: spines, hibernation and how to help them» 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 (hedgehog, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:214-hedgehogs-spines-hibernation-and-how-to-help-them.lesson:0
# text = A hedgehog wears about five thousand spines, and each one is a stiff, hollow hair.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 214-hedgehogs-spines-hibernation-and-how-to-help-them.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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wears	wear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	compound	_	_
6	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	spines	spine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc
10	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	stiff	stiff	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
18	.	.	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 | **wear** | present | a hedgehog | thousand spines |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent spine=Source |
| 2 | **is a** | present | each one | a stiff hollow hair |  |  |  |  | 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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**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:214-hedgehogs-spines-hibernation-and-how-to-help-them.lesson:0`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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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