Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 2: swimming lessons, curling lessons, and a new name, sentence 29
Their armour is made of small bony plates covered with tough skin.
What happens: make, cover · To what, where: armour, small bony plates
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: 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 armour | nmod:poss |
| 2 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux:pass |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 plates | case |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 plates | amod |
| 7 | bony | bony | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 plates | amod |
| 8 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | obl |
| 9 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 plates | acl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 skin | case |
| 11 | tough | tough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 skin | amod |
| 12 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 covered | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | babies's armour | of small bony plates | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | cover | participle | small bony plates not said here | with tough skin | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with skin=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:29.
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): no change. 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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