--- title: Baviaan's riddles: "The game has gone into other spots; and my advic… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Le… · tree and pragmatics description: Baviaan's riddles: "The game has gone into other spots; and my advice to you, Leopard, is to go into other spots", and "The aboriginal Fauna has joined the aboriginal Flora because it was high time for a change" ("game" = wild animals hunted for food). 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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 (game, advice, aboriginal Fauna, Fauna), 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:15 # text = Baviaan's riddles: "The game has gone into other spots; and my advice to you, Leopard, is to go into other spots", and "The aboriginal Fauna has joined the aboriginal Flora because it was high time for a change" ("game" = wild animals hunted for food). # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Baviaan Baviaan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 riddles riddle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 6 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:acl:relcl 10 into into ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 spots spot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 15 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 advice advice NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 Leopard leopard NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 25 into into ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 spots spot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 31 " " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ _ 32 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 aboriginal aboriginal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 34 Fauna fauna PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=36:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 35 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 joined join VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 27 acl:relcl _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:det 38 aboriginal aboriginal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 39 Flora Flora PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:appos 40 because because SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 42 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 43 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 advcl _ _ 45 for for ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 change change NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod _ _ 48 " " PUNCT '' _ 51 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=51:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 49 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 51 punct _ _ 50 " " PUNCT `` _ 51 punct _ _ 51 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 appos _ _ 52 " " PUNCT '' _ 51 punct _ _ 53 = = SYM SYM _ 55 punct _ _ 54 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 55 amod _ _ 55 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 nmod _ _ 56 hunted hunt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 55 acl _ _ 57 for for ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 58 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 obl _ _ 59 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 55 punct _ _ 60 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the game | | | other spots | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into spot=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | my advice to you and Leopard | | | other spots | | go *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **join** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the aboriginal Fauna | the aboriginal Flora | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flora=Patient | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | Fauna | high time | | | | for a change wild animals | tree rules | | 5 | **hunt** | participle | | wild animals *not said here* | | | | for food | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for food=Theme | | 6 | **riddle** | | Baviaan | | | | | | nom riddle «communication intransitive»: 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. 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