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description: The hunter says the animals should "show up in this dark place like ripe bananas in a smokehouse", that is, bright yellow things in a dark room. Who acts: hunter, animals. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got his Spots, part 1 (the game goes into the fo
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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 18

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The hunter says the animals should "show up in this dark place like ripe bananas in a smokehouse", that is, bright yellow things in a dark room.

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**Who acts:** hunter, animals · **What happens:** say, show up · **To what, where:** dark place · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (hunter, animals), 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:18
# text = The hunter says the animals should "show up in this dark place like ripe bananas in a smokehouse", that is, bright yellow things in a dark room.
# 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
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
12	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	ripe	ripe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	bananas	banana	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	smokehouse	smokehouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	discourse	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	fixed	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
25	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the hunter |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **show up** *in a quote* | should | the animals |  |  | this dark place like ripe bananas in a smokehouse |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location |

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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:18`.

**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. **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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