--- title: Cartoons get some of it wrong, though: porcupines cannot shoot their… — Defences: skunks, porcupines, hedgehogs and armour · tree and pragmatics description: Cartoons get some of it wrong, though: porcupines cannot shoot their quills, and a tortoise can never climb out of its shell. Who acts: Cartoons, porcupines, tortoise. 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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 (Cartoons, porcupines, tortoise), 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:4 # text = Cartoons get some of it wrong, though: porcupines cannot shoot their quills, and a tortoise can never climb out of its shell. # 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 ×1 1 Cartoons cartoon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nmod _ _ 6 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 8 though though ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 10 porcupines porcupine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 11 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 shoot shoot VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 quills quill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 tortoise tortoise NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 climb climb VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 23 out out ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | present | Cartoons | some | | | | though, wrong *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer some=Stimulus | | 2 | **not** **shoot** | can | porcupines | cartoons's quills | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quill=Theme | | 3 | **not** **climb out** | can | a tortoise | | | | | of tortoise's shell; out *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of shell=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:248-defences-skunks-porcupines-hedgehogs-and-armour.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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