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title: She says a Hedgehog is a Hedgehog and a Tortoise is a Tortoise, but… — Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos… · tree and pragmatics
description: She says a Hedgehog is a Hedgehog and a Tortoise is a Tortoise, but when he says this is a bit of both, she says she would call it «Armadillo» till she found the real name, and leave it alone. Who acts: She, Hedgehog, Tortoise, this. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Ar
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# Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 2: swimming lessons, curling lessons, and a new name, sentence 9

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She says a Hedgehog is a Hedgehog and a Tortoise is a Tortoise, but when he says this is a bit of both, she says she would call it «Armadillo» till she found the real name, and leave it alone.

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**Who acts:** She, Hedgehog, Tortoise, this, Armadillo · **What happens:** say, be, call, find, leave · **To what, where:** Hedgehog, Tortoise, bit, real name · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (She, Hedgehog, Tortoise, this), 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:9
# text = She says a Hedgehog is a Hedgehog and a Tortoise is a Tortoise, but when he says this is a bit of both, she says she would call it «Armadillo» till she found the real name, and leave it alone.
# 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	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	ccomp	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	nmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	ccomp	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	_
33	Armadillo	Armadillo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	xcomp	_	_
34	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=37:punct
35	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
36	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	_
45	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
46	.	.	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | She |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a Hedgehog | a Hedgehog and a Tortoise |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | a Tortoise | a Tortoise |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Tortoise |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | present | this | a bit |  |  |  | of both | tree rules |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | she |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **call** | would | she | bit |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
| 8 | **find** | past | Armadillo | the real name |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Topic |
| 9 | **leave** | infinitive | she *not said here* | bit |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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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**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.

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