--- title: Tortoise holds up Hedgehog's chin while he learns to swim; Hedgehog… — Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos… · tree and pragmatics description: Tortoise holds up Hedgehog's chin while he learns to swim; Hedgehog unlaces Tortoise's back-plates so he can bend and curl a tiny bit. Who acts: Tortoise, Hedgehog. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 2: swimming lessons, curling lessons, and a new name» --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/83-justso-armadillos-2-the-first-armadillo/1/) [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/83-justso-armadillos-2-the-first-armadillo/) / 1 # Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 2: swimming lessons, curling lessons, and a new name, sentence 1 Tortoise holds up Hedgehog's chin while he learns to swim; Hedgehog unlaces Tortoise's back-plates so he can bend and curl a tiny bit. **Who acts:** Tortoise, Hedgehog · **What happens:** hold up, learn, swim, unlace, bend, curl · **To what, where:** chin, back plates, tiny bit 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 (Tortoise, Hedgehog), 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:1 # text = Tortoise holds up Hedgehog's chin while he learns to swim; Hedgehog unlaces Tortoise's back-plates so he can bend and curl a tiny bit. # 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 Tortoise tortoise NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 up up ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 Hedgehog Hedgehog PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 chin chin NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 7 while while SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 learns learn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 swim swim VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 Hedgehog Hedgehog PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 14 unlaces unlace VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 15 Tortoise Tortoise PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ _ 19 plates plate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 20 so so SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 bend bend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 curl curl VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl:unmarked _ _ 29 . . 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 | **hold up** | present | Tortoise | Hedgehog's chin | | | | | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot chin=Theme | | 2 | **learn** | present | Tortoise | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **swim** | to-infinitive | Tortoise *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **unlace** | present | Hedgehog | Tortoise's back plates | | | | | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plate=Patient | | 5 | **bend** | can | Tortoise | a tiny bit | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **curl** | infinitive | Tortoise *not said here* | | | | | | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:083-justso-armadillos-2-the-first-armadillo.lesson:1`. **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. 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