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title: The nine-banded armadillo almost always has four identical babies. — The nocturnal house: night animals by red light · tree and pragmatics
description: The nine-banded armadillo almost always has four identical babies. Who acts: banded armadillo. A sentence of the lesson «The nocturnal house: night animals by red light» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The nocturnal house: night animals by red light, sentence 16

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The nine-banded armadillo almost always has four identical babies.

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**Who acts:** banded armadillo · **What happens:** band, have · **To what, where:** four identical babies

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The nocturnal house: night animals by red light» 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 (banded armadillo), 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:16
# text = The nine-banded armadillo almost always has four identical babies.
# 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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	banded	band	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	armadillo	armadillo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	always	always	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
10	identical	identical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | 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 | **have** | present | the banded armadillo | four identical babies |  |  |  | always *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient |

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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:095-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light.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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