Wild animals and tall tales, sentence 10
Porcupines can't shoot their quills; the quills come loose easily when touched and stick into an attacker.
Who acts: Porcupines, quills · What happens: not shoot, come, touch, stick · To what, where: quills, attacker
This is a sentence of the lesson «Wild animals and tall tales» of the myths 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, 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 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 shoot | aux |
| 3 | n't | 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 | _ | 10 come | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 quills | det |
| 9 | quills | quill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 come | nsubj |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 shoot | parataxis |
| 11 | loose | loose | ADV | _ | 10 come | advmod |
| 12 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 10 come | advmod |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 touched | advmod |
| 14 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 come | advcl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 stick | cc |
| 16 | stick | stick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 come | conj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 attacker | case |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 attacker | det |
| 19 | attacker | attacker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stick | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shoot | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not shoot | can | Porcupines | Porcupines's quills | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quill=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | present | the quills | easily, loose property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | touch | participle | the quills not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | stick | infinitive | the quills not said here | a 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:myths:008-wild-animals-and-tall-tales.lesson:10.
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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