--- title: The Leopard remembers that "Giraffe is about seventeen feet high" an… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Le… · tree and pragmatics description: The Leopard remembers that "Giraffe is about seventeen feet high" and Zebra "about four and a half feet high" (he knows the Zebra's size well, because he used to hunt him and crunch his marrow-bones); "Fiddle!" is an old word for "Nonsense!". Who acts: Leopard, Giraffe, Fiddle. 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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 (Leopard, Giraffe, Fiddle), 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:17 # text = The Leopard remembers that "Giraffe is about seventeen feet high" and Zebra "about four and a half feet high" (he knows the Zebra's size well, because he used to hunt him and crunch his marrow-bones); "Fiddle!" is an old word for "Nonsense!". # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Leopard leopard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 remembers remember VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 Giraffe giraffe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 8 about about ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 seventeen seventeen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 ccomp _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 Zebra Zebra PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 16 about about ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 17 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:det 20 half half ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 21 amod _ _ 21 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 22 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 24 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 Zebra Zebra PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 29 's 's PART POS _ 28 case _ _ 30 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 31 well well ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 because because SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 hunt hunt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 xcomp _ _ 38 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 crunch crunch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 conj _ _ 41 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 42 marrow marrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 43 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 42 punct _ _ 44 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obj _ _ 45 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct 46 ; ; PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 47 " " PUNCT `` _ 48 punct _ _ 48 Fiddle Fiddle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 54 nsubj _ _ 49 ! ! PUNCT . _ 48 punct _ _ 50 " " PUNCT '' _ 48 punct _ _ 51 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 54 cop _ _ 52 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 53 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 54 amod _ _ 54 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 55 for for ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 56 " " PUNCT `` _ 57 punct _ _ 57 Nonsense nonsense NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 nmod _ _ 58 ! ! PUNCT . _ 57 punct _ _ 59 " " PUNCT '' _ 57 punct _ _ 60 . . 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 | **remember** | present | the Leopard | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Giraffe and Zebra | | | | | seventeen feet *obl:unmarked*; four half feet *obl*; high *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **know** | present | Leopard | the Zebra's size | | | | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer size=Stimulus | | 4 | **use** | past | Leopard | | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **hunt** | to-infinitive | Leopard *not said here* | Leopard | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 6 | **crunch** | infinitive | Leopard *not said here* | Leopard's marrow bones | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient | | 7 | **is a** | present | Fiddle | a old word | | | | for Nonsense | 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. 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