Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1: Painted Jaguar and the muddled advice, sentence 28
Real life: jaguars really live by the Amazon, love water and swim well, and their bite is strong enough to crack a turtle's shell, so a real tortoise would not be safe.
Who acts: jaguars, bite, real tortoise, Hedgehog · What happens: live, love, swim, be, crack, not be · To what, where: Real life, water, shell
This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1: Painted Jaguar and the muddled advice» of the books 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 (jaguars, bite, real tortoise, Hedgehog), 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 life | amod |
| 2 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 live | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 jaguars | punct |
| 4 | jaguars | jaguar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 live | nsubj |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 live | advmod |
| 6 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 Amazon | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Amazon | det |
| 9 | Amazon | Amazon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 live | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 love | punct |
| 11 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 live | conj |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 love | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 swim | cc |
| 14 | swim | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 live | conj |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 swim | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 strong | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 strong | cc |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 bite | nmod:poss |
| 19 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 strong | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 strong | cop |
| 21 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 live | conj |
| 22 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 21 strong | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 crack | mark |
| 24 | crack | crack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 strong | advcl |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 turtle | det |
| 26 | turtle | turtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 shell | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 turtle | case |
| 28 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 crack | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 safe | punct |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 37 safe | advmod |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 tortoise | det |
| 32 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 tortoise | amod |
| 33 | tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 safe | nsubj |
| 34 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 safe | aux |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 safe | advmod |
| 36 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 safe | cop |
| 37 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 live | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 life | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | jaguars | Real life | by the Amazon | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by amazon=Location | |||
| 2 | love | present | jaguars not said here | water | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | swim | present | jaguars not said here | well property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | Hedgehog's bite | enough, strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | crack | to-infinitive | Hedgehog's bite not said here | a turtle's shell | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shell=Theme | ||||
| 6 | not is | would | a real tortoise | safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | bite | Hedgehog | nom bite «state transitive»: poss=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:books:082-justso-armadillos-1-painted-jaguar.lesson:28.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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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