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title: Jaguar «fell three times backward over his own painted tail». — Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos… · tree and pragmatics
description: Jaguar «fell three times backward over his own painted tail». Who acts: 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 school with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 2: swimming lessons, curling lessons, and a new name, sentence 22

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Jaguar «fell three times backward over his own painted tail».

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**Who acts:** Jaguar · **What happens:** fall, paint · **To what, where:** own painted tail

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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 (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:22
# text = Jaguar «fell three times backward over his own painted tail».
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:dislocated|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
3	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	backward	backward	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advmod
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
9	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **fall** *in a quote* | past | Jaguar |  |  | Jaguar's own painted tail | time | backward *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over tail=Location |
| 2 | **paint** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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:22`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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/).

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