Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 2: swimming lessons, curling lessons, and a new name, sentence 28

Real life: armadillos are mammals, with hair on their bellies and babies that drink milk; they are not a mix of hedgehog and tortoise.

Who acts: armadillos, babies · What happens: be, drink, not be · To what, where: mammals, milk, mix

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 (armadillos, babies), 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 life	amod
2	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 mammals	punct
4	armadillos	armadillo	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 mammals	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 mammals	cop
6	mammals	mammal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 life	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hair	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 hair	case
9	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mammals	nmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 bellies	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 bellies	nmod:poss
12	bellies	belly	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hair	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 babies	cc
14	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 bellies	conj
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 drink	nsubj
16	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 babies	acl:relcl
17	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 drink	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 mix	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 mix	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 mix	cop
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 mix	advmod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 mix	det
23	mix	mix	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 life	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 hedgehog	case
25	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 mix	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 tortoise	cc
27	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hedgehog	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 life	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	armadillos	mammals	with hair on mammals's bellies and babies	tree rules
2	drink	present	babies	milk		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient
3	not is a	present	babies = baby	a mix	of hedgehog and tortoise	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:28.

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 ×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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/83-justso-armadillos-2-the-first-armadillo/28/