--- title: Porcupines carry thousands of barbed quills, chinchillas wear one of… — Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marmots, prair… · tree and pragmatics description: Porcupines carry thousands of barbed quills, chinchillas wear one of the thickest furs on Earth, and the tiny hazel dormouse curls into a tight golden ball to sleep through winter. Who acts: Porcupines, chinchillas, tiny hazel dormouse. 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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 (Porcupines, chinchillas, tiny hazel dormouse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:317-rodents-of-every-kind-squirrels-marmots-prairie-dogs-porcupines-chinchillas-and-dormice.lesson:2 # text = Porcupines carry thousands of barbed quills, chinchillas wear one of the thickest furs on Earth, and the tiny hazel dormouse curls into a tight golden ball to sleep through winter. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 317-rodents-of-every-kind-squirrels-marmots-prairie-dogs-porcupines-chinchillas-and-dormice.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 Porcupines porcupine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 barbed barbed ADJ JJ _ 6 amod _ _ 6 quills quill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 chinchillas chinchilla NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 wear wear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 10 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 obj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 thickest thick ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 14 amod _ _ 14 furs fur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 20 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 hazel hazel NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 dormouse dormouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 curls curl VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 24 into into ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 26 tight tight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 27 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 acl _ _ 31 through through ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 33 . . 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 | **carry** | present | Porcupines | thousands of barbed quills | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Theme | | 2 | **wear** | present | chinchillas | one of the thickest furs on Earth | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent one=Source | | 3 | **curl** | present | the tiny hazel dormouse | | | a tight golden ball | | | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into ball=Destination | | 4 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | the tiny hazel dormouse *not said here* | | | | winter | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:317-rodents-of-every-kind-squirrels-marmots-prairie-dogs-porcupines-chinchillas-and-dormice.lesson:2`. **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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