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title: Real life: jaguars really live by the Amazon, love water and swim we… — Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real life: jaguars really live by the Amazon, love water and swim well, and their bite is strong enough to crack a turtle's shell, so a real tortoise would not be safe. Who acts: jaguars, bite, real tortoise, Hedgehog. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 
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# Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1: Painted Jaguar and the muddled advice, sentence 28

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Real life: jaguars really live by the Amazon, love water and swim well, and their bite is strong enough to crack a turtle's shell, so a real tortoise would not be safe.

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**Who acts:** jaguars, bite, real tortoise, Hedgehog · **What happens:** live, love, swim, be, crack, not be · **To what, where:** Real life, water, 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 (jaguars, bite, real tortoise, Hedgehog), 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:28
# text = Real life: jaguars really live by the Amazon, love water and swim well, and their bite is strong enough to crack a turtle's shell, so a real tortoise would not be safe.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
4	jaguars	jaguar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	really	really	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Amazon	Amazon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
12	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	swim	swim	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	bite	bite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=14:conj
22	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	crack	crack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	turtle	turtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
34	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
36	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	cop	_	_
37	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6: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 | jaguars | Real life |  |  |  | by the Amazon | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by amazon=Location |
| 2 | **love** | present | jaguars *not said here* | water |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus |
| 3 | **swim** | present | jaguars *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | Hedgehog's bite |  |  |  |  | enough, strong *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **crack** | to-infinitive | Hedgehog's bite *not said here* | a turtle's shell |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shell=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **is** | would | a real tortoise |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **bite** |  | Hedgehog |  |  |  |  |  | nom bite «state transitive»: 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:28`.

**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, 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/).

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