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title: Real life: animals do not change their bodies by practising for one… — Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real life: animals do not change their bodies by practising for one night; living things change very slowly, over thousands of generations. Who acts: animals, living things. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 2: swimming lessons, curling lessons, and a n
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# Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 2: swimming lessons, curling lessons, and a new name, sentence 33

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Real life: animals do not change their bodies by practising for one night; living things change very slowly, over thousands of generations.

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**Who acts:** animals, living things · **What happens:** not change, practise, change · **To what, where:** bodies, thousands

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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 (animals, living things), 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:33
# text = Real life: animals do not change their bodies by practising for one night; living things change very slowly, over thousands of generations.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
4	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	appos	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	practising	practise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	advcl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
16	living	live	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	change	change	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
22	over	over	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	generations	generation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **not** **change** | present · do-support | animals | life's bodies |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient |
| 2 | **practise** | gerund | animals *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **change** | present | living things |  |  | thousands of generations |  | slowly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «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:33`.

**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): R8-pos-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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