Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 2: swimming lessons, curling lessons, and a new name, sentence 1

Tortoise holds up Hedgehog's chin while he learns to swim; Hedgehog unlaces Tortoise's back-plates so he can bend and curl a tiny bit.

Who acts: Tortoise, Hedgehog · What happens: hold up, learn, swim, unlace, bend, curl · To what, where: chin, back plates, tiny bit

This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 2: swimming lessons, curling lessons, and a new name» 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 (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	Tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 holds	nsubj
2	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 holds	compound:prt
4	Hedgehog	Hedgehog	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 chin	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Hedgehog	case
6	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 holds	obj
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	9 learns	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 learns	nsubj
9	learns	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 holds	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 swim	mark
11	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 learns	xcomp
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 unlaces	punct
13	Hedgehog	Hedgehog	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 unlaces	nsubj
14	unlaces	unlace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 holds	parataxis
15	Tortoise	Tortoise	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 plates	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 Tortoise	case
17	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 plates	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 back	punct
19	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 unlaces	obj
20	so	so	SCONJ	_	23 bend	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 bend	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 bend	aux
23	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 unlaces	advcl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 curl	cc
25	curl	curl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 bend	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 bit	det
27	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 bit	amod
28	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bend	obl:unmarked
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 holds	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hold up	present	Tortoise	Hedgehog's chin	vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot chin=Theme
2	learn	present	Tortoise		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	swim	to-infinitive	Tortoise not said here		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	unlace	present	Hedgehog	Tortoise's back plates	vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plate=Patient
5	bend	can	Tortoise	a tiny bit	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	curl	infinitive	Tortoise not said here		vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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:083-justso-armadillos-2-the-first-armadillo.lesson:1.

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 ×3. 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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