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title: The Leopard and the hunter grew so hungry that they "ate rats and be… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Le… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Leopard and the hunter grew so hungry that they "ate rats and beetles and rock-rabbits" and "had the Big Tummy-ache, both together". Who acts: Leopard, Giraffe. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got his Spots, part 1 (the game goes into the forest)» 
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# Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got his Spots, part 1 (the game goes into the forest), sentence 12

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The Leopard and the hunter grew so hungry that they "ate rats and beetles and rock-rabbits" and "had the Big Tummy-ache, both together".

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**Who acts:** Leopard, Giraffe · **What happens:** grow, eat, have · **To what, where:** rats, Big ache

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got his Spots, part 1 (the game goes into the forest)» 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 (Leopard, Giraffe), 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:12
# text = The Leopard and the hunter grew so hungry that they "ate rats and beetles and rock-rabbits" and "had the Big Tummy-ache, both together".
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Leopard	leopard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
12	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
13	rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	beetles	beetle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
19	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
23	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
25	Big	Big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	compound	_	_
26	Tummy	Tummy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	_
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	_
28	ache	ache	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc:preconj	_	_
31	together	together	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:parataxis
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | the Leopard and the hunter |  |  |  |  | hungry *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** *in a quote* | past | Giraffe | rats and beetles and rock rabbits |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Patient |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | past | Giraffe *not said here* | the Big ache |  |  |  | together *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ache=Patient |

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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:books:077-justso-leopard-spots-1.lesson:12`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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