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description: A hedgehog has about 5,000 to 7,000 spines and rolls into a tight prickly ball when frightened, which is why Carroll made hedgehogs into croquet balls that unroll and walk away. Who acts: hedgehog, croquet balls. A sentence of the lesson «The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the dormouse, the M
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# The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the dormouse, the March hare, flamingos and hedgehogs, sentence 16

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A hedgehog has about 5,000 to 7,000 spines and rolls into a tight prickly ball when frightened, which is why Carroll made hedgehogs into croquet balls that unroll and walk away.

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**Who acts:** hedgehog, croquet balls · **What happens:** have, roll, frighten, make, unroll, walk away · **To what, where:** 5,000 spines, tight prickly ball, hedgehogs, croquet balls

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the dormouse, the March hare, flamingos and hedgehogs» 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 (hedgehog, croquet balls), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:401-the-real-animals-of-wonderland-dodo-dormouse-hare-flamingo-hedgehog.lesson:16
# text = A hedgehog has about 5,000 to 7,000 spines and rolls into a tight prickly ball when frightened, which is why Carroll made hedgehogs into croquet balls that unroll and walk away.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 401-the-real-animals-of-wonderland-dodo-dormouse-hare-flamingo-hedgehog.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, R8-pos-agree ×3
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	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	5,000	5000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	7,000	7000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nmod	_	_
8	spines	spine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	rolls	roll	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	tight	tight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	prickly	prickly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
17	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:acl
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
22	Carroll	Carroll	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
23	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
24	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	croquet	croquet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	balls	ball	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	unroll	unroll	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
32	away	away	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a hedgehog | 5,000 spines |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spine=Patient |
| 2 | **roll** | present | a hedgehog *not said here* |  |  | a tight prickly ball |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into ball=Destination |
| 3 | **frighten** | participle | a hedgehog *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **make** | present |  | hedgehogs |  | croquet balls |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent hedgehog=Material into ball=Product |
| 5 | **unroll** | present | croquet balls |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **walk away** | present | croquet balls *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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:401-the-real-animals-of-wonderland-dodo-dormouse-hare-flamingo-hedgehog.lesson:16`.

**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, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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