How animals defend themselves, sentence 5

A hedgehog has about 5000 to 7000 spines, which are stiff hollow hairs, and a strong muscle lets it roll into a tight prickly ball.

Who acts: hedgehog, 5000 spines, strong muscle · What happens: have, be, let, roll · To what, where: 5000 spines, stiff hollow hairs, hedgehog, tight prickly ball

This is a sentence of the lesson «How animals defend themselves» 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, 5000 spines, strong muscle), 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	ADP	_	8 spines	case
5	5000	5000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 spines	nummod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 7000	case
7	7000	7000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 5000	nmod
8	spines	spine	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hairs	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 hairs	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 hairs	cop
12	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hairs	amod
13	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hairs	amod
14	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 spines	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lets	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 lets	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 muscle	det
18	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 muscle	amod
19	muscle	muscle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lets	nsubj
20	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 lets	obj
22	roll	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 lets	xcomp
23	into	into	ADP	_	27 ball	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 ball	det
25	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 ball	amod
26	prickly	prickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 ball	amod
27	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 roll	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	present	a hedgehog	5000 spines		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spine=Patient
2	is a	present	5000 spines	stiff hollow hairs		tree rules
3	let	present	a strong muscle	hedgehog		tree rules
4	roll	infinitive	hedgehog not said here		a tight prickly ball	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into ball=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:053-how-animals-defend-themselves.lesson:5.

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 ×2. 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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