--- title: An animal that cannot run fast can still be very hard to eat: it can… — Defences: skunks, porcupines, hedgehogs and armour · tree and pragmatics description: An animal that cannot run fast can still be very hard to eat: it can be spiky, smelly, or covered in armour like a knight. Who acts: animal. 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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 (animal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:248-defences-skunks-porcupines-hedgehogs-and-armour.lesson:0 # text = An animal that cannot run fast can still be very hard to eat: it can be spiky, smelly, or covered in armour like a knight. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 248-defences-skunks-porcupines-hedgehogs-and-armour.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 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 3 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 acl:relcl _ _ 7 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 9 still still ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 12 cop _ _ 11 very very ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:xcomp 15 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 cop _ _ 19 spiky spiky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 parataxis _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 smelly smelly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 19 conj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 armour armour NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 27 like like ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 knight knight NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:nmod 30 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **run** | can | a animal | | | | | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | can | a animal | | | | still | hard *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **eat** | to-infinitive | a animal *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | can | animal | | | | | spiky *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | animal *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **cover** | participle | animal *not said here* | | | | | like a knight; in armour | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in armour=Theme | 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:248-defences-skunks-porcupines-hedgehogs-and-armour.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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