Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 2: swimming lessons, curling lessons, and a new name, sentence 32
Real life: only the three-banded armadillos can roll into a full ball; the nine-banded armadillo can swim, hold its breath for about six minutes, and even walk along the bottom of a stream.
Who acts: three banded armadillos, banded armadillo · What happens: band, roll, swim, hold, walk · To what, where: full ball, breath, bottom
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 (three banded armadillos, banded armadillo), 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 | _ | 2 life | punct |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 armadillos | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 armadillos | det |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 armadillos | nummod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 three | punct |
| 8 | banded | band | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 armadillos | amod |
| 9 | armadillos | armadillo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 roll | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 roll | aux |
| 11 | roll | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 life | parataxis |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 ball | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 ball | det |
| 14 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ball | amod |
| 15 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 roll | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 swim | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 armadillo | det |
| 18 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 banded | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 nine | punct |
| 20 | banded | band | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 armadillo | amod |
| 21 | armadillo | armadillo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 swim | nsubj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 swim | aux |
| 23 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 roll | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 hold | punct |
| 25 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 swim | conj |
| 26 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 breath | nmod:poss |
| 27 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hold | obj |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 minutes | case |
| 29 | about | about | ADV | _ | 30 six | advmod |
| 30 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 minutes | nummod |
| 31 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 hold | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 walk | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 walk | cc |
| 34 | even | even | ADV | _ | 35 walk | advmod |
| 35 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 swim | conj |
| 36 | along | along | ADP | _ | 38 bottom | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 bottom | det |
| 38 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 walk | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 stream | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 stream | det |
| 41 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 bottom | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 life | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | band | participle | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | roll | can | the three banded armadillos | a full ball | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into ball=Destination | ||||
| 3 | band | participle | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | swim | can | the banded armadillo | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | hold | infinitive | the banded armadillo not said here | ball's breath | minute | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme | |||
| 6 | walk | infinitive | the banded armadillo not said here | the bottom of a stream | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along bottom=Trajectory |
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:32.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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