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title: Hedgehogs snore, snuffle and grunt, and they got their name because… — Hedgehogs: spines, hibernation and how to help t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hedgehogs snore, snuffle and grunt, and they got their name because they root about in hedges and grunt like pigs; their babies are called hoglets. Who acts: Hedgehogs, scientists. A sentence of the lesson «Hedgehogs: spines, hibernation and how to help them» of the biology course of Mova's primary 
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# Hedgehogs: spines, hibernation and how to help them, sentence 13

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Hedgehogs snore, snuffle and grunt, and they got their name because they root about in hedges and grunt like pigs; their babies are called hoglets.

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**Who acts:** Hedgehogs, scientists · **What happens:** snore, snuffle, grunt, get, root, call · **To what, where:** name, babies · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Hedgehogs, 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:13
# text = Hedgehogs snore, snuffle and grunt, and they got their name because they root about in hedges and grunt like pigs; their babies are called hoglets.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	snore	snore	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	snuffle	snuffle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	grunt	grunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	root	root	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
16	about	about	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	hedges	hedge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	grunt	grunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=10:conj
28	hoglets	hoglet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	xcomp	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27: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 | **snore** | present | Hedgehogs |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **snuffle** | present | Hedgehogs *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **grunt** | present | Hedgehogs *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **get** | past | scientists *= scientist* | scientists's name |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus |
| 5 | **root** | present | scientists *= scientist* |  |  |  |  | about hedges and grunt like pigs | vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent about hedge=Location |
| 6 | **call** | present · passive |  | scientists's babies |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 7 | **name** |  | scientists *= scientist* |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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.

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