Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 2: swimming lessons, curling lessons, and a new name, sentence 17

Tortoise practises putting his hind legs round his ears, which he calls «so peculiarly comfortable».

Who acts: Tortoise · What happens: practise, put, call · To what, where: hind legs, ears · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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 practises	nsubj
2	practises	practise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 practises	xcomp
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 legs	nmod:poss
5	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 legs	amod
6	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 putting	obj
7	round	round	ADP	_	9 ears	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 ears	nmod:poss
9	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 putting	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 calls	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 calls	obj
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 calls	nsubj
13	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 ears	acl:relcl
14	«	«	PUNCT	_	17 comfortable	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	17 comfortable	advmod
16	peculiarly	peculiarly	ADV	_	17 comfortable	advmod
17	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 calls	xcomp
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 comfortable	nsubj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 practises	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	practise	present	Tortoise			tree rules
2	put	gerund	Tortoise not said here	Tortoise's hind legs	round Tortoise's ears	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent leg=Goal
3	call	present	Tortoise	Tortoise's ears	comfortable property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Recipient

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:17.

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): R6-punct-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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