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title: Hedgehog says «you can scoop me out of my shell», so Jaguar thinks h… — Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hedgehog says «you can scoop me out of my shell», so Jaguar thinks he must be Tortoise and grabs him. Who acts: Hedgehog, you, 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 scho
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# Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1: Painted Jaguar and the muddled advice, sentence 5

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Hedgehog says «you can scoop me out of my shell», so Jaguar thinks he must be Tortoise and grabs him.

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**Who acts:** Hedgehog, you, Jaguar · **What happens:** say, scoop, think, be, grab · **To what, where:** Hedgehog, shell, Tortoise, Jaguar · **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, you, 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:5
# text = Hedgehog says «you can scoop me out of my shell», so Jaguar thinks he must be Tortoise and grabs him.
# 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 ×2
1	Hedgehog	Hedgehog	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	``	_	6	punct	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	scoop	scoop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
16	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
20	Tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	ccomp	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	grabs	grab	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Hedgehog |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **scoop** *in a quote* | can | you | Hedgehog |  | my shell |  |  | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent i=Theme out shell=Trajectory |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Jaguar |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | must | Jaguar | Tortoise |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **grab** | present | Jaguar *not said here* | Jaguar |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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:5`.

**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 ×2. **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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