More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcupine arrows, toads and falling cats, sentence 8
A North American porcupine has about 30,000 quills, and it rattles them and stamps as a warning first.
Who acts: North American porcupine, porcupine · What happens: have, rattle, stamp · To what, where: 30,000 quills, quills
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 (North American porcupine, porcupine), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 porcupine | det |
| 2 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 porcupine | compound |
| 3 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 porcupine | amod |
| 4 | porcupine | porcupine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 30,000 | advmod |
| 7 | 30,000 | 30,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 quills | nummod |
| 8 | quills | quill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 has | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rattles | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 rattles | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 rattles | nsubj |
| 12 | rattles | rattle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 has | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 rattles | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stamps | cc |
| 15 | stamps | stamp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 rattles | conj |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 warning | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 warning | det |
| 18 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stamps | obl |
| 19 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 stamps | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a North American porcupine | 30,000 quills | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quill=Patient | ||||
| 2 | rattle | present | porcupine | quills = quill | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stamp | present | porcupine not said here | as a warning; first property | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent as warning=Attribute |
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:8.
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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