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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 (hedgehog, scientists), 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:12 # text = Sometimes a hedgehog chews something with a new smell and spreads foamy spit all over its spines; this is called self-anointing, and scientists are still not sure why it does it. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 4 advmod _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 hedgehog hedgehog NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 chews chew VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 obj _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 spreads spread VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 12 foamy foamy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 spit spit NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 all all ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 15 over over ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 spines spine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 22 self self NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ _ 24 anointing anoint VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 xcomp _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 27 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 28 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 29 still still ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:parataxis 32 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 34 advmod _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:parataxis 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 . . 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 | **chew** | present | a hedgehog | something | | | | with a new smell; sometimes *property* | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | | 2 | **spread** | present | a hedgehog *not said here* | foamy spit | | hedgehog's spines | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent spit=Theme over spine=Destination | | 3 | **call** | present · passive | | this | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **anoint** | gerund | | | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **is** | present | scientists | | | | still | sure *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **do** | present | hedgehog | spit | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | 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:214-hedgehogs-spines-hibernation-and-how-to-help-them.lesson:12`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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