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title: Painted Jaguar lives there too, and his Mother has told him how to e… — Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos… · tree and pragmatics
description: Painted Jaguar lives there too, and his Mother has told him how to eat them: drop a Hedgehog in the water so he uncoils, and scoop a Tortoise out of his shell with your paw. Who acts: Painted Jaguar, Mother, Jaguar. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1: 
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# Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1: Painted Jaguar and the muddled advice, sentence 1

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Painted Jaguar lives there too, and his Mother has told him how to eat them: drop a Hedgehog in the water so he uncoils, and scoop a Tortoise out of his shell with your paw.

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**Who acts:** Painted Jaguar, Mother, Jaguar · **What happens:** live, tell, eat, drop, uncoil, scoop · **To what, where:** Jaguar, lettuces, Hedgehog, water, Tortoise, shell · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1: Painted Jaguar and the muddled advice» 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 (Painted Jaguar, Mother, Jaguar), 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:1
# text = Painted Jaguar lives there too, and his Mother has told him how to eat them: drop a Hedgehog in the water so he uncoils, and scoop a Tortoise out of his shell with your paw.
# 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 ×2
1	Painted	Painted	PROPN	NNP	_	2	compound	_	_
2	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	_
13	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
18	drop	drop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nmod
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	uncoils	uncoil	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	scoop	scoop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	out	out	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	paw	paw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **live** | present | Painted Jaguar |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · perfect | Jaguar's Mother |  | Jaguar |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **eat** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | lettuces *= lettuce* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 4 | **drop** | infinitive |  | a Hedgehog |  | the water |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hedgehog=Theme in water=Destination |
| 5 | **uncoil** | present | Jaguar |  |  |  |  |  | vn separate-23.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **scoop** | infinitive |  | a Tortoise |  | Tortoise's shell |  | with your paw | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent tortoise=Theme out shell=Trajectory |

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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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**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 ×2. **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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