--- title: So when you read the book, ask two questions: what is true about thi… — The real animals of the Just So Stories: the wha… · tree and pragmatics description: So when you read the book, ask two questions: what is true about this animal, and what is only the joke? Who acts: you. 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 --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, leopard, elephant, kangaroo, armadillo and crab, sentence 7 So when you read the book, ask two questions: what is true about this animal, and what is only the joke? **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** read, ask, be · **To what, where:** book, two questions, joke 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 (you), 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:7 # text = So when you read the book, ask two questions: what is true about this animal, and what is only the joke? # 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): no change 1 So so ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 2 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 read read VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 8 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 14 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 parataxis _ _ 15 about about ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 17 det _ _ 17 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 20 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 24 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 22 only only ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 25 ? ? PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **read** | present | you | the book | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | two questions | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | | | about this animal; true *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | | the joke | | | | | tree rules | 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:7`. **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): no change. **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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