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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, thousand brown spines, muscle), 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:4 # text = A hedgehog has about five thousand brown and cream spines, which are hollow hairs; it cannot shoot or throw them, and a muscle pulls its skin tight to roll it into a ball. # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 hedgehog hedgehog NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 about about ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 5 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 compound _ _ 6 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 7 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 cream cream ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 10 spines spine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 hollow hollow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 hairs hair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 acl:relcl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 shoot shoot VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 throw throw VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 muscle muscle NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 pulls pull VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 29 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 tight tight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 xcomp _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 roll roll VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 into into ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **have** | present | a hedgehog | thousand brown spines | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spine=Patient | | 2 | **is a** | present | thousand brown spines | hollow hairs | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **shoot** | can | hedgehog | | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **throw** | infinitive | hedgehog *not said here* | spines *= spine* | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 5 | **pull** | present | a muscle | hedgehog's skin | | | | tight *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme | | 6 | **roll** | to-infinitive | a muscle *not said here* | hedgehog | | a ball | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme into ball=Trajectory | 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:4`. **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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