--- title: There "the Giraffe grew blotchy, and the Zebra grew stripy, and the… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Le… · tree and pragmatics description: There "the Giraffe grew blotchy, and the Zebra grew stripy, and the Eland and the Koodoo grew darker, with little wavy grey lines on their backs like bark on a tree trunk". Who acts: Giraffe, Zebra, Eland. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Giraffe, Zebra, Eland), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:077-justso-leopard-spots-1.lesson:11 # text = There "the Giraffe grew blotchy, and the Zebra grew stripy, and the Eland and the Koodoo grew darker, with little wavy grey lines on their backs like bark on a tree trunk". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 077-justso-leopard-spots-1.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, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 5 expl _ _ 2 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Giraffe giraffe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 blotchy blotchy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Zebra Zebra PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 11 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 12 stripy stripy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Eland Eland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Koodoo koodoo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 20 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 21 darker dark ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 20 xcomp _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 24 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 25 wavy wavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 lines line NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 backs back NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 31 like like ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 bark bark NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 33 on on ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 trunk trunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 37 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** *in a quote* | past | the Giraffe | | | there | | blotchy *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **grow** *in a quote* | past | the Zebra | | | | | stripy *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **grow** *in a quote* | past | the Eland and the Koodoo | | | | | with little wavy grey lines on Giraffe's backs like bark on a tree trunk; dark *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:books:077-justso-leopard-spots-1.lesson:11`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4:…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/77-justso-leopard-spots-1/10/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4:…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/77-justso-leopard-spots-1/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/77-justso-leopard-spots-1/)