Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1: Painted Jaguar and the muddled advice, sentence 9

She explains clearly: a Hedgehog curls up and his prickles stick out; a Tortoise cannot curl up, he only pulls in his head and legs.

Who acts: Mother, Hedgehog, prickles, Tortoise · What happens: explain, curl up, stick out, not curl up, pull · To what, where: 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 (Mother, Hedgehog, prickles, Tortoise), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 explains	nsubj
2	explains	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	2 explains	advmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 curls	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 Hedgehog	det
6	Hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 curls	nsubj
7	curls	curl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 explains	ccomp
8	up	up	PART	_	7 curls	compound:prt
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 stick	cc
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 prickles	nmod:poss
11	prickles	prickle	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 stick	nsubj
12	stick	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 curls	conj
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 stick	compound:prt
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 curl	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 Tortoise	det
16	Tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 curl	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 curl	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 curl	advmod
19	curl	curl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 explains	conj
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 curl	compound:prt
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 pulls	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 pulls	nsubj
23	only	only	ADV	_	24 pulls	advmod
24	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 curl	parataxis
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 head	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 head	nmod:poss
27	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pulls	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 legs	cc
29	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 head	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 explains	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	present	Mother		clearly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	curl up	present	a Hedgehog			vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme
3	stick out	present	Jaguar's prickles			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	not curl up	can	a Tortoise			vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme
5	pull	present	Tortoise	Jaguar's head and legs		vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:9.

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 ×2, 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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