Hedgehogs: spines, hibernation and how to help them, sentence 12

Sometimes a hedgehog chews something with a new smell and spreads foamy spit all over its spines; this is called self-anointing, and scientists are still not sure why it does it.

Who acts: hedgehog, scientists · What happens: chew, spread, call, anoint, not be, do · To what, where: something, foamy spit, spines, this, spit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Hedgehogs: spines, hibernation and how to help them» 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, scientists), 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 chews	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hedgehog	det
3	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chews	nsubj
4	chews	chew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 chews	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 smell	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 smell	det
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 smell	amod
9	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chews	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 spreads	cc
11	spreads	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 chews	conj
12	foamy	foamy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 spit	amod
13	spit	spit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spreads	obj
14	all	all	ADV	_	17 spines	advmod
15	over	over	ADP	_	17 spines	case
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 spines	nmod:poss
17	spines	spine	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 spit	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 called	punct
19	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 called	nsubj:pass
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 called	aux:pass
21	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 chews	parataxis
22	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 anointing	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 self	punct
24	anointing	anoint	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 called	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sure	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 sure	cc
27	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 sure	nsubj
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 sure	cop
29	still	still	ADV	_	31 sure	advmod
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 sure	advmod
31	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 called	conj
32	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	34 does	advmod
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 does	nsubj
34	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 sure	ccomp
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 does	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 chews	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chew	present	a hedgehog	something			with a new smell; sometimes property	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
2	spread	present	a hedgehog not said here	foamy spit	hedgehog's spines			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent spit=Theme over spine=Destination
3	call	present · passive		this				tree rules
4	anoint	gerund						vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	not is	present	scientists			still	sure property	tree rules
6	do	present	hedgehog	spit				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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:214-hedgehogs-spines-hibernation-and-how-to-help-them.lesson:12.

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): R7-rel-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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