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title: Real life: a jaguar's spots are rosettes, rings with little dots ins… — Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real life: a jaguar's spots are rosettes, rings with little dots inside; the leopard of Africa and Asia has rings with no dots. Who acts: spots, leopard. 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 
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# Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1: Painted Jaguar and the muddled advice, sentence 29

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Real life: a jaguar's spots are rosettes, rings with little dots inside; the leopard of Africa and Asia has rings with no dots.

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**Who acts:** spots, leopard · **What happens:** be, have · **To what, where:** rosettes, rings

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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 (spots, leopard), 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:29
# text = Real life: a jaguar's spots are rosettes, rings with little dots inside; the leopard of Africa and Asia has rings with no dots.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	dep	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	jaguar	jaguar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	rosettes	rosette	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	dots	dot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	leopard	leopard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	27	det	_	_
27	dots	dot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23: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 | **is a** | present | a jaguar's spots | rosettes and rings with little dots |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | the leopard of Africa and Asia | rings |  |  |  | with no dots | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient |

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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:29`.

**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): 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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