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title: The giant armadillo can dig a big burrow in a night, and lizards, oc… — Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans… · tree and pragmatics
description: The giant armadillo can dig a big burrow in a night, and lizards, ocelots (small wild cats) and birds later shelter in it. Who acts: giant armadillo, lizards. A sentence of the lesson «Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric eels and the candiru» of the biology course of Mova's pr
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# Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric eels and the candiru, sentence 16

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The giant armadillo can dig a big burrow in a night, and lizards, ocelots (small wild cats) and birds later shelter in it.

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**Who acts:** giant armadillo, lizards · **What happens:** dig, shelter · **To what, where:** big burrow

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric eels and the candiru» of the biology 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 (giant armadillo, lizards), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales.lesson:16
# text = The giant armadillo can dig a big burrow in a night, and lizards, ocelots (small wild cats) and birds later shelter in it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	armadillo	armadillo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	dig	dig	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	burrow	burrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	lizards	lizard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	ocelots	ocelot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
18	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	appos	_	_
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
24	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	25	advmod	_	_
25	shelter	shelter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dig** | can | the giant armadillo | a big burrow |  |  | night |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent burrow=Theme |
| 2 | **shelter** | present | lizards and ocelots and birds |  |  |  |  | in armadillo; late *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:biology:158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales.lesson:16`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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