--- title: Armadillos dig for insects at night with strong claws and are covere… — The nocturnal house: night animals by red light · tree and pragmatics description: Armadillos dig for insects at night with strong claws and are covered in bony plates; only the three-banded armadillos roll into a full ball. Who acts: Armadillos, three banded armadillos. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Armadillos, three banded armadillos), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:095-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light.lesson:15 # text = Armadillos dig for insects at night with strong claws and are covered in bony plates; only the three-banded armadillos roll into a full ball. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 095-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Armadillos armadillo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 dig dig VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 claws claw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 bony bony ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 plates plate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 17 only only ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 19 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ _ 21 banded band VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 amod _ _ 22 armadillos armadillo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 roll roll VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 24 into into ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dig** | present | Armadillos | | | | night | for insects; with strong claws | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with claw=Instrument | | 2 | **cover** | present · passive | Armadillos *not said here* | | | | | in bony plates | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: in plate=Theme | | 3 | **band** | participle | | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **roll** | present | the three banded armadillos | | | a full ball | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into ball=Destination | 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](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:095-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light.lesson:15`. **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): R8-pos-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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