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title: Mother Jaguar's rule: «when you find a Hedgehog you must drop him in… — Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mother Jaguar's rule: «when you find a Hedgehog you must drop him into the water and then he will uncoil, and when you catch a Tortoise you must scoop him out of his shell with your paw». Who acts: you, Jaguar, Mother Jaguar. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos
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# Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1: Painted Jaguar and the muddled advice, sentence 14

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Mother Jaguar's rule: «when you find a Hedgehog you must drop him into the water and then he will uncoil, and when you catch a Tortoise you must scoop him out of his shell with your paw».

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**Who acts:** you, Jaguar, Mother Jaguar · **What happens:** find, drop, uncoil, catch, scoop, rule · **To what, where:** Hedgehog, Jaguar, water, Tortoise, shell

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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 (you, 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:14
# text = Mother Jaguar's rule: «when you find a Hedgehog you must drop him into the water and then he will uncoil, and when you catch a Tortoise you must scoop him 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Jaguar	jaguar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	drop	drop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	uncoil	uncoil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
26	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	catch	catch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	scoop	scoop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=23:conj
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	out	out	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	paw	paw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
42	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **find** *in a quote* | present | you | a Hedgehog |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hedgehog=Topic |
| 2 | **drop** *in a quote* | must | you | Jaguar |  | the water |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into water=Destination |
| 3 | **uncoil** *in a quote* | future | Jaguar |  |  |  | then |  | vn separate-23.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **catch** *in a quote* | present | you | a Tortoise |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tortoise=Theme |
| 5 | **scoop** *in a quote* | must | you | Jaguar |  | Jaguar's shell |  | with your paw | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme out shell=Trajectory |
| 6 | **rule** |  | Mother Jaguar |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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:books:082-justso-armadillos-1-painted-jaguar.lesson:14`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.

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

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