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description: Hiding under a leaf as Mother Jaguar explains, they say: «I don't like this old lady one little bit.» Who acts: Hedgehog, Mother Jaguar. 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 sc
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# Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1: Painted Jaguar and the muddled advice, sentence 22

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Hiding under a leaf as Mother Jaguar explains, they say: «I don't like this old lady one little bit.»

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**Who acts:** Hedgehog, Mother Jaguar · **What happens:** hide, explain, say, not like · **To what, where:** leaf, old lady · **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 (Hedgehog, 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:22
# text = Hiding under a leaf as Mother Jaguar explains, they say: «I don't like this old lady one little bit.»
# 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
1	Hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
2	under	under	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Jaguar	jaguar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	explains	explain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
13	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
18	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
19	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
22	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
25	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	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 | **hide** | gerund | Hedgehog *not said here* |  |  | a leaf |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under leaf=Location |
| 2 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | Mother Jaguar |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Hedgehog |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **like** *in a quote* | present · do-support | Hedgehog | this old lady |  |  |  | one little bit *obl:unmarked* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot lady=Theme |

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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:22`.

**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. **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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