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title: The rock hyrax from the Leopard's story looks like a big guinea pig,… — The real animals of the Just So Stories: the wha… · tree and pragmatics
description: The rock hyrax from the Leopard's story looks like a big guinea pig, yet its closest living relatives are elephants and manatees; the quagga, a zebra striped only at the front, died out in 1883. Who acts: rock hyrax, closest living relatives, quagga. A sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the
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# The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, leopard, elephant, kangaroo, armadillo and crab, sentence 19

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The rock hyrax from the Leopard's story looks like a big guinea pig, yet its closest living relatives are elephants and manatees; the quagga, a zebra striped only at the front, died out in 1883.

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**Who acts:** rock hyrax, closest living relatives, quagga · **What happens:** look, be, stripe, die out · **To what, where:** elephants, zebra, front

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, leopard, elephant, kangaroo, armadillo and crab» of the biology 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 (rock hyrax, closest living relatives, quagga), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab.lesson:19
# text = The rock hyrax from the Leopard's story looks like a big guinea pig, yet its closest living relatives are elephants and manatees; the quagga, a zebra striped only at the front, died out in 1883.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab.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): R2-punct-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	hyrax	hyrax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Leopard	leopard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
9	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	guinea	guinea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct
16	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nmod:poss
18	closest	close	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	amod	_	_
19	living	live	ADJ	JJ	_	20	amod	_	_
20	relatives	relative	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	manatees	manatee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	quagga	quagga	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	zebra	zebra	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
31	striped	stripe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl	_	_
32	only	only	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
37	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
38	out	out	ADP	RP	_	37	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	1883	1883	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	37	obl	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | the rock hyrax from the Leopard's story |  |  |  |  | like a big guinea pig | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | present | hyrax's closest living relatives | elephants and manatees |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stripe** | participle |  | a zebra *not said here* |  | the front |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **die out** | past | the quagga |  |  |  |  | in 1883 | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1883=Attribute |

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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:biology:404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab.lesson:19`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.

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