--- title: Scientists even borrowed Kipling's title: they call a neat explanati… — The real animals of the Just So Stories: the wha… · tree and pragmatics description: Scientists even borrowed Kipling's title: they call a neat explanation that nobody has tested «a just-so story». Who acts: Scientists, nobody, Kipling. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The real animals of the Just So Storie…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab/) / 6 # The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, leopard, elephant, kangaroo, armadillo and crab, sentence 6 Scientists even borrowed Kipling's title: they call a neat explanation that nobody has tested «a just-so story». **Who acts:** Scientists, nobody, Kipling · **What happens:** borrow, call, test, title · **To what, where:** title, neat explanation · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Scientists, nobody, Kipling), 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:6 # text = Scientists even borrowed Kipling's title: they call a neat explanation that nobody has tested «a just-so story». # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 Scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 even even ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 borrowed borrow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 Kipling Kipling PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 title title NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 neat neat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 explanation explanation NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 obj _ _ 14 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 16 nsubj _ _ 15 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 tested test VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 12 acl:relcl _ _ 17 « « PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 19 just just ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:advmod 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ _ 23 » » PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **borrow** | past | Scientists | Kipling's title | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent title=Theme | | 2 | **call** | present | Scientists *= scientist* | a neat explanation | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent explanation=Recipient | | 3 | **test** | present · perfect | nobody | a neat explanation | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | | 4 | **title** | | Kipling | | | | | | nom title «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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. 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:6`. **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, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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