--- title: Real life: only the three-banded armadillos can roll into a full bal… — Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos… · tree and pragmatics description: Real life: only the three-banded armadillos can roll into a full ball; the nine-banded armadillo can swim, hold its breath for about six minutes, and even walk along the bottom of a stream. Who acts: three banded armadillos, banded armadillo. 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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 (three banded armadillos, banded armadillo), 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:32 # text = Real life: only the three-banded armadillos can roll into a full ball; the nine-banded armadillo can swim, hold its breath for about six minutes, and even walk along the bottom of a stream. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 4 only only ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advmod 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 6 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 8 banded band VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 amod _ _ 9 armadillos armadillo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 10 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 roll roll VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 12 into into ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 18 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nummod 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ _ 20 banded band VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 amod _ _ 21 armadillo armadillo NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 swim swim VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:xcomp 26 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 breath breath NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 about about ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 even even ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 36 along along ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 stream stream NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 42 . . 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 | **band** | participle | | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **roll** | can | the three banded armadillos | | | a full ball | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into ball=Destination | | 3 | **band** | participle | | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **swim** | can | the banded armadillo | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **hold** | infinitive | the banded armadillo *not said here* | ball's breath | | | minute | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme | | 6 | **walk** | infinitive | the banded armadillo *not said here* | | | the bottom of a stream | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along bottom=Trajectory | 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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