Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1: Painted Jaguar and the muddled advice, sentence 3
Hedgehog curls into a ball and Tortoise pulls in his head and feet, so Jaguar cannot tell which is which.
Who acts: Hedgehog, Tortoise, Jaguar · What happens: curl, pull, not tell, be · To what, where: ball, head · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Hedgehog, Tortoise, Jaguar), 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 | Hedgehog | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 curls | nsubj |
| 2 | curls | curl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 ball | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 ball | det |
| 5 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 curls | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 pulls | cc |
| 7 | Tortoise | Tortoise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 pulls | nsubj |
| 8 | pulls | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 curls | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 head | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 head | nmod:poss |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pulls | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 feet | cc |
| 13 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 head | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tell | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 tell | advmod |
| 16 | Jaguar | Jaguar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 tell | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 tell | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 tell | advmod |
| 19 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 curls | conj |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 which | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 which | cop |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 tell | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 curls | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curl | present | Hedgehog | a ball | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into ball=Destination | ||||
| 2 | pull | present | Tortoise | Tortoise's head and feet | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not tell speech: assert | can | Jaguar | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | tree rules |
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:3.
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 ×1, R8-pos-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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