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title: Hedgehogs eat beetles, worms and slugs, not apples; old pictures sho… — Animal myths put right: elephants and mice, lemm… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hedgehogs eat beetles, worms and slugs, not apples; old pictures showed them carrying fruit on their spines, and milk makes hedgehogs ill, while cat food and water are safe for them. Who acts: Hedgehogs, old pictures, milk, cat food. A sentence of the lesson «Animal myths put right: elephants and mi
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# Animal myths put right: elephants and mice, lemmings, ostriches and goldfish, sentence 16

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Hedgehogs eat beetles, worms and slugs, not apples; old pictures showed them carrying fruit on their spines, and milk makes hedgehogs ill, while cat food and water are safe for them.

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**Who acts:** Hedgehogs, old pictures, milk, cat food · **What happens:** eat, show, carry, make, be · **To what, where:** beetles, fruit, spines, hedgehogs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal myths put right: elephants and mice, lemmings, ostriches and goldfish» 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, old pictures, milk, cat food), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:295-animal-myths-put-right-elephants-and-mice-lemmings-ostriches-and-goldfish.lesson:16
# text = Hedgehogs eat beetles, worms and slugs, not apples; old pictures showed them carrying fruit on their spines, and milk makes hedgehogs ill, while cat food and water are safe for them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 295-animal-myths-put-right-elephants-and-mice-lemmings-ostriches-and-goldfish.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 ×1
1	Hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	beetles	beetle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	worms	worm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	slugs	slug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	xcomp	_	_
17	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	spines	spine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
25	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
26	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
29	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
33	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **eat** | present | Hedgehogs | beetles and worms and slugs and apples |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beetle=Patient |
| 2 | **show** | past | old pictures | beetles *= beetle* |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **carry** | gerund | old pictures *not said here* | fruit |  | pictures's spines |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | present | milk | hedgehogs |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material hedgehog=Product |
| 5 | **is** | present | cat food and water |  |  |  |  | for pictures *= picture*; safe *property* | tree rules |

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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): 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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