More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcupine arrows, toads and falling cats, sentence 7

Porcupines cannot shoot their quills; the barbed quills come out easily when touched and stick into the attacker.

Who acts: Porcupines, barbed quills · What happens: not shoot, come out, touch, stick · To what, where: quills, attacker

This is a sentence of the lesson «More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcupine arrows, toads and falling cats» 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 (Porcupines, barbed quills), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Porcupines	porcupine	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shoot	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 shoot	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 shoot	advmod
4	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 quills	nmod:poss
6	quills	quill	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shoot	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 quills	det
9	barbed	barbed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 quills	amod
10	quills	quill	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 come	nsubj
11	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 shoot	parataxis
12	out	out	ADV	_	11 come	advmod
13	easily	easily	ADV	_	11 come	advmod
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 touched	advmod
15	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 come	advcl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 stick	cc
17	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 come	conj
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 attacker	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 attacker	det
20	attacker	attacker	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stick	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shoot	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not shoot	can	Porcupines	litres's quills			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quill=Theme
2	come out	present	the barbed quills			easily, out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
3	touch	participle	the barbed quills not said here				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	stick	infinitive	the barbed quills not said here		the attacker		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into attacker=Destination

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, 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:154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons.lesson:7.

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, 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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