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title: Hedgehog and Tortoise know Jaguar will never forget his rhyme, so th… — Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hedgehog and Tortoise know Jaguar will never forget his rhyme, so they decide to swap skills. Who acts: Hedgehog, Jaguar. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 2: swimming lessons, curling lessons, and a new name» of the books course of Mova's primary schoo
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# Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 2: swimming lessons, curling lessons, and a new name, sentence 0

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Hedgehog and Tortoise know Jaguar will never forget his rhyme, so they decide to swap skills.

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**Who acts:** Hedgehog, Jaguar · **What happens:** know, not forget, decide, swap, rhyme · **To what, where:** rhyme, skills · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 2: swimming lessons, curling lessons, and a new name» 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, Jaguar), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:083-justso-armadillos-2-the-first-armadillo.lesson:0
# text = Hedgehog and Tortoise know Jaguar will never forget his rhyme, so they decide to swap skills.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 083-justso-armadillos-2-the-first-armadillo.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	Hedgehog	Hedgehog	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Tortoise	Tortoise	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	decide	decide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	swap	swap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	skills	skill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **know** | present | Hedgehog and Tortoise |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **forget** | future | Jaguar | Jaguar's rhyme |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **decide** | present | Hedgehog |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **swap** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Hedgehog *not said here* | skills |  |  |  |  | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skill=Theme |
| 5 | **rhyme** |  | Jaguar |  |  |  |  |  | nom rhyme «communication intransitive»: 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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**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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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