--- title: Tortoise practises putting his hind legs round his ears, which he ca… — Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos… · tree and pragmatics description: Tortoise practises putting his hind legs round his ears, which he calls «so peculiarly comfortable». Who acts: Tortoise. 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 --- [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/17/) [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/) / 17 # Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 2: swimming lessons, curling lessons, and a new name, sentence 17 Tortoise practises putting his hind legs round his ears, which he calls «so peculiarly comfortable». **Who acts:** Tortoise · **What happens:** practise, put, call · **To what, where:** hind legs, ears · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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), 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:17 # text = Tortoise practises putting his hind legs round his ears, which he calls «so peculiarly comfortable». # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Tortoise tortoise NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 practises practise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 putting put VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 xcomp _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 hind hind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 round round ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 obj _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 calls call VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 14 « « PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 16 peculiarly peculiarly ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 comfortable comfortable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 18 » » PUNCT '' _ 17 nsubj _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **practise** | present | Tortoise | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **put** | gerund | Tortoise *not said here* | Tortoise's hind legs | | | | round Tortoise's ears | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent leg=Goal | | 3 | **call** | present | Tortoise | Tortoise's ears | | | | comfortable *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Recipient | 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:17`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1. **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/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories, The Beginning of the…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/83-justso-armadillos-2-the-first-armadillo/15/) - next →: [Just So Stories, The Beginning of the…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/83-justso-armadillos-2-the-first-armadillo/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/83-justso-armadillos-2-the-first-armadillo/)