Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 2: swimming lessons, curling lessons, and a new name, sentence 21
Hedgehog says «scales are a tremendous improvement on prickles».
Who acts: Hedgehog, scales · What happens: say, be · To what, where: tremendous improvement, prickles · 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 (Hedgehog, scales), 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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 improvement | punct |
| 4 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 improvement | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 improvement | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 improvement | det |
| 7 | tremendous | tremendous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 improvement | amod |
| 8 | improvement | improvement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 says | ccomp |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 prickles | case |
| 10 | prickles | prickle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 improvement | nmod |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 improvement | punct |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Hedgehog | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | scales | a tremendous improvement | prickles | 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:083-justso-armadillos-2-the-first-armadillo.lesson:21.
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): R8-pos-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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