--- title: A hedgehog in the garden is a good example: when the dog sniffs it,… — How animals defend themselves · tree and pragmatics description: A hedgehog in the garden is a good example: when the dog sniffs it, a strong muscle pulls its prickly skin round it like a drawstring bag, and the dog gets a nose full of spines instead of a snack. Who acts: hedgehog, dog, strong muscle. 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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 (hedgehog, dog, strong muscle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:053-how-animals-defend-themselves.lesson:1 # text = A hedgehog in the garden is a good example: when the dog sniffs it, a strong muscle pulls its prickly skin round it like a drawstring bag, and the dog gets a nose full of spines instead of a snack. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 053-how-animals-defend-themselves.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 hedgehog hedgehog NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 11 when when SCONJ WRB _ 14 mark _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:det 13 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 sniffs sniff VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 muscle muscle NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 pulls pull VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 21 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 prickly prickly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 round round ADP IN _ 25 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ _ 26 like like ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 drawstring drawstring NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:conj 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 spines spine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ _ 40 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 43 case _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 40 fixed _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 snack snack NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a hedgehog in the garden | a good example | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **sniff** | present | the dog | hedgehog | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **pull** | present | a strong muscle | muscle's prickly skin | | | | round hedgehog; like a drawstring bag | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme | | 4 | **get** | present | the dog | a nose | | | | instead a snack | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nose=Stimulus | 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:053-how-animals-defend-themselves.lesson:1`. **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 ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [How animals defend themselves, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/53-how-animals-defend-themselves/0/) - next →: [How animals defend themselves, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/53-how-animals-defend-themselves/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/53-how-animals-defend-themselves/)