--- title: Jaguar says «to save my spots» and «You are making my spots ache»; i… — Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos… · tree and pragmatics description: Jaguar says «to save my spots» and «You are making my spots ache»; in old English «paddy-paw» is a baby word for paw. Who acts: Jaguar, You, spots, paddy paw. 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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 (Jaguar, You, spots, paddy paw), 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:17 # text = Jaguar says «to save my spots» and «You are making my spots ache»; in old English «paddy-paw» is a baby word for 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Jaguar Jaguar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 6 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 spots spot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 « « PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 11 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ _ 14 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 spots spot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 ache ache VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 17 » » PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 22 « « PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 23 paddy paddy NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ _ 25 paw paw NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 26 » » PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 paw paw NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 33 . . 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Jaguar | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **save** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Jaguar *not said here* | my spots | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Theme | | 3 | **make** *in a quote* | present · progressive | You | my spots | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **ache** *in a quote* | infinitive | my spots *not said here* | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **is a** | present | paddy paw | a baby word | | old English | | for paw | tree rules | 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:17`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories, The Beginning of the…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/82-justso-armadillos-1-painted-jaguar/16/) - next →: [Just So Stories, The Beginning of the…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/82-justso-armadillos-1-painted-jaguar/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/82-justso-armadillos-1-painted-jaguar/)