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title: A hedgehog has about 5,000 to 7,000 spines, which are hollow hairs,… — Animals of North America and Britain: moose, bal… · tree and pragmatics
description: A hedgehog has about 5,000 to 7,000 spines, which are hollow hairs, eats mostly insects, worms and beetles, hibernates from about November to March, and should be given water and meaty pet food, never bread and milk, because milk upsets their stomachs. Who acts: hedgehog, 5,000 spines, milk. A sente
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# Animals of North America and Britain: moose, bald eagles, raccoons, beavers, foxes, badgers, hedgehogs, robins, sentence 10

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A hedgehog has about 5,000 to 7,000 spines, which are hollow hairs, eats mostly insects, worms and beetles, hibernates from about November to March, and should be given water and meaty pet food, never bread and milk, because milk upsets their stomachs.

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**Who acts:** hedgehog, 5,000 spines, milk · **What happens:** have, be, eat, hibernate, give, upset · **To what, where:** 5,000 spines, hollow hairs, insects, water, stomachs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Animals of North America and Britain: moose, bald eagles, raccoons, beavers, foxes, badgers, hedgehogs, robins» 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, 5,000 spines, milk), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:080-animals-of-north-america-and-britain.lesson:10
# text = A hedgehog has about 5,000 to 7,000 spines, which are hollow hairs, eats mostly insects, worms and beetles, hibernates from about November to March, and should be given water and meaty pet food, never bread and milk, because milk upsets their stomachs.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 080-animals-of-north-america-and-britain.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): R1-cc-next ×3, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
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	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	hairs	hair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advmod
17	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	worms	worm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	beetles	beetle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	hibernates	hibernate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	about	about	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
26	November	November	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc
31	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
34	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=34:cc
36	meaty	meaty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
41	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=38:conj
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=41:cc
43	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
46	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
47	upsets	upset	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	_
48	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	stomachs	stomach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obj	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **have** | present | a hedgehog | 5,000 spines |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spine=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | 5,000 spines | hollow hairs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **eat** | present | a hedgehog *not said here* | insects and worms and beetles |  |  |  | mostly *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Patient |
| 4 | **hibernate** | present | a hedgehog *not said here* |  |  |  | november |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location |
| 5 | **give** | should · passive | a hedgehog *not said here* | water and meaty pet food and bread and milk |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: water=Theme |
| 6 | **upset** | present | milk | worms's stomachs |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus stomach=Experiencer |

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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): R1-cc-next ×3, R3-conj-first ×1, 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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