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A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1: Painted Jaguar and the muddled advice» of the b --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/82-justso-armadillos-1-painted-jaguar/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [Just So Stories, The Beginning of the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/82-justso-armadillos-1-painted-jaguar/) / 7 # Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1: Painted Jaguar and the muddled advice, sentence 7 Tortoise then talks in such knots that Jaguar orders him into the river, which is just what Tortoise wanted: he dives and swims away. **Who acts:** Tortoise, Jaguar, river · **What happens:** talk, order, be, dive, swim away · **To what, where:** such knots, Tortoise, river 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 (Tortoise, Jaguar, river), 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:7 # text = Tortoise then talks in such knots that Jaguar orders him into the river, which is just what Tortoise wanted: he dives and swims away. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Tortoise tortoise PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 3 talks talk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 knots knot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:obj|HaikuPos=PRON:WDT:PronType=Rel 8 Jaguar Jaguar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 orders order VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 10 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 into into ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 17 just just ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advmod 18 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 20 obj _ _ 19 Tortoise Tortoise PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 21 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 dives dive VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 swims swim VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 26 away away ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:advmod 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **talk** | present | Tortoise | | | such knots | then | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **order** | present | Jaguar | such knots *not said here* | Tortoise | the river | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | the river | | | | | want *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **dive** | present | Jaguar | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **swim away** | present | Jaguar *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. 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