Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 2: swimming lessons, curling lessons, and a new name, sentence 9

She says a Hedgehog is a Hedgehog and a Tortoise is a Tortoise, but when he says this is a bit of both, she says she would call it «Armadillo» till she found the real name, and leave it alone.

Who acts: She, Hedgehog, Tortoise, this, Armadillo · What happens: say, be, call, find, leave · To what, where: Hedgehog, Tortoise, bit, real name · 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 (She, Hedgehog, Tortoise, this), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 Hedgehog	det
4	Hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Hedgehog	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 Hedgehog	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 Hedgehog	det
7	Hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 Tortoise	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 Tortoise	det
10	Tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Tortoise	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 Tortoise	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 Tortoise	det
13	Tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Hedgehog	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 says	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 says	cc
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 says	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 says	nsubj
18	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	conj
19	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 bit	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 bit	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 bit	det
22	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 says	ccomp
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 both	case
24	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	22 bit	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 says	punct
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 says	nsubj
27	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	conj
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 call	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 call	aux
30	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 says	ccomp
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 call	obj
32	«	«	PUNCT	_	33 Armadillo	punct
33	Armadillo	Armadillo	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 call	xcomp
34	»	»	PUNCT	_	33 Armadillo	punct
35	till	till	SCONJ	_	37 found	mark
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 found	nsubj
37	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 call	advcl
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 name	det
39	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 name	amod
40	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 found	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 leave	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 leave	cc
43	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 call	conj
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 leave	obj
45	alone	alone	ADV	_	43 leave	advmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	She			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	a Hedgehog	a Hedgehog and a Tortoise		tree rules
3	is a	present	a Tortoise	a Tortoise		tree rules
4	say speech: assert	present	Tortoise			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present	this	a bit	of both	tree rules
6	say speech: assert	present	she			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	call	would	she	bit		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
8	find	past	Armadillo	the real name		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Topic
9	leave	infinitive	she not said here	bit	alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:9.

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): R6-punct-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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