Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 2: swimming lessons, curling lessons, and a new name, sentence 4

Tortoise's plates now overlap, and Hedgehog's prickles have melted together into scales, so he looks more like a pine-cone than a prickly chestnut-case.

Who acts: plates, prickles, Tortoise · What happens: overlap, melt, look · To what, where: scales

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 (plates, prickles, 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	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 plates	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Tortoise	case
3	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 overlap	nsubj
4	now	now	ADV	_	5 overlap	advmod
5	overlap	overlap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 melted	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 melted	cc
8	Hedgehog	Hedgehog	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 prickles	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Hedgehog	case
10	prickles	prickle	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 melted	nsubj
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 melted	aux
12	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 overlap	conj
13	together	together	ADV	_	12 melted	advmod
14	into	into	ADP	_	15 scales	case
15	scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 melted	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 looks	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	19 looks	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 looks	nsubj
19	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 overlap	conj
20	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 looks	advmod
21	like	like	ADP	_	25 cone	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 cone	det
23	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cone	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 pine	punct
25	cone	cone	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 looks	obl
26	than	than	ADP	_	31 case	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 case	det
28	prickly	prickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 case	amod
29	chestnut	chestnut	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 case	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 chestnut	punct
31	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 looks	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 overlap	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	overlap	present	Tortoise's plates		now		vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	melt	present · perfect	Hedgehog's prickles	scales		together property	vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into scale=Product
3	look	present	Tortoise			like a pine cone; than a prickly chestnut case	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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:4.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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