--- title: She explains clearly: a Hedgehog curls up and his prickles stick out… — Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos… · tree and pragmatics description: She explains clearly: a Hedgehog curls up and his prickles stick out; a Tortoise cannot curl up, he only pulls in his head and legs. Who acts: Mother, Hedgehog, prickles, Tortoise. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mother, Hedgehog, prickles, Tortoise), 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:9 # text = She explains clearly: a Hedgehog curls up and his prickles stick out; a Tortoise cannot curl up, he only pulls in his head and legs. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 explains explain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 clearly clearly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Hedgehog hedgehog NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 curls curl VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 8 up up PART RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 prickles prickle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 stick stick VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 13 out out ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Tortoise tortoise NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 17 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 curl curl VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 20 up up ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 only only ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 pulls pull VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:conj 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:conj 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | Mother | | | | | clearly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **curl up** | present | a Hedgehog | | | | | | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **stick out** | present | Jaguar's prickles | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **not** **curl up** | can | a Tortoise | | | | | | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **pull** | present | Tortoise | | | Jaguar's head and legs | | | vn slide-11.2 «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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