--- title: On the banks of the muddy Amazon live two friends: Stickly-Prickly H… — Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos… · tree and pragmatics description: On the banks of the muddy Amazon live two friends: Stickly-Prickly Hedgehog, who eats snails, and Slow-Solid Tortoise, who eats lettuces. Who acts: Stickly Prickly Hedgehog, Solid Tortoise. 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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 (Stickly Prickly Hedgehog, Solid Tortoise), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:082-justso-armadillos-1-painted-jaguar.lesson:0 # text = On the banks of the muddy Amazon live two friends: Stickly-Prickly Hedgehog, who eats snails, and Slow-Solid Tortoise, who eats lettuces. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 082-justso-armadillos-1-painted-jaguar.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 On on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 banks bank NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 muddy muddy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 Amazon Amazon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 8 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 12 Stickly stickly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ _ 14 Prickly prickly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 Hedgehog Hedgehog PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 19 snails snail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 Slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ _ 24 Solid solid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 Tortoise tortoise NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 29 lettuces lettuce NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | | two friends | | the banks of the muddy Amazon | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme friend=Location | | 2 | **eat** | present | Stickly Prickly Hedgehog and Solid Tortoise | snails | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snail=Patient | | 3 | **eat** | present | Solid Tortoise | lettuces | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lettuce=Patient | 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:books:082-justso-armadillos-1-painted-jaguar.lesson:0`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6:…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/81-justso-old-man-kangaroo/20/) - next →: [Just So Stories, The Beginning of the…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/82-justso-armadillos-1-painted-jaguar/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/82-justso-armadillos-1-painted-jaguar/)