The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the dormouse, the March hare, flamingos and hedgehogs, sentence 16
A hedgehog has about 5,000 to 7,000 spines and rolls into a tight prickly ball when frightened, which is why Carroll made hedgehogs into croquet balls that unroll and walk away.
Who acts: hedgehog, croquet balls · What happens: have, roll, frighten, make, unroll, walk away · To what, where: 5,000 spines, tight prickly ball, hedgehogs, croquet balls
This is a sentence of the lesson «The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the dormouse, the March hare, flamingos and hedgehogs» 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, croquet balls), 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 | 2 hedgehog | det |
| 2 | hedgehog | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 5,000 | advmod |
| 5 | 5,000 | 5000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 spines | nummod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 7,000 | case |
| 7 | 7,000 | 7000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 5,000 | nmod |
| 8 | spines | spine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 has | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 rolls | cc |
| 10 | rolls | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | conj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 ball | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 ball | det |
| 13 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ball | amod |
| 14 | prickly | prickly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ball | amod |
| 15 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rolls | obl |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 frightened | advmod |
| 17 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 rolls | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 made | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 made | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 made | aux |
| 21 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 made | advmod |
| 22 | Carroll | Carroll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 made | nsubj |
| 23 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | parataxis |
| 24 | hedgehogs | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 made | obj |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 balls | case |
| 26 | croquet | croquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 balls | compound |
| 27 | balls | ball | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 made | obl |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 unroll | nsubj |
| 29 | unroll | unroll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 balls | acl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 walk | cc |
| 31 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 unroll | conj |
| 32 | away | away | ADV | _ | 31 walk | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | 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 | roll | present | a hedgehog not said here | a tight prickly ball | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into ball=Destination | ||||
| 3 | frighten | participle | a hedgehog not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | make | present | hedgehogs | croquet balls | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent hedgehog=Material into ball=Product | ||||
| 5 | unroll | present | croquet balls | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | walk away | present | croquet balls not said here | away property | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:401-the-real-animals-of-wonderland-dodo-dormouse-hare-flamingo-hedgehog.lesson:16.
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, R8-pos-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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