--- title: Real biology: the "rock-rabbit" is the rock hyrax, a small furry ani… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Le… · tree and pragmatics description: Real biology: the "rock-rabbit" is the rock hyrax, a small furry animal of African rocks which, oddly, is a distant relative of the elephant; the Quagga, a half-striped zebra named in the story, died out in 1883. Who acts: rock rabbit, African rocks, Real biology. 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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 (rock rabbit, African rocks, Real biology), 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:20 # text = Real biology: the "rock-rabbit" is the rock hyrax, a small furry animal of African rocks which, oddly, is a distant relative of the elephant; the Quagga, a half-striped zebra named in the story, died out in 1883. # 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 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 biology biology NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 6 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 8 rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 hyrax hyrax NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 17 furry furry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 African African ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 22 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 24 oddly oddly ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 distant distant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 relative relative NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 acl:relcl _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 33 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 Quagga quagga NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 38 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 40 compound _ _ 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ _ 40 striped stripe ADJ JJ _ 41 amod _ _ 41 zebra zebra NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 42 named name VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 41 acl _ _ 43 in in ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 46 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 47 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 48 out out ADP RP _ 47 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=47:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 49 in in ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 1883 1883 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 47 obl _ _ 51 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=47:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the rock rabbit | the rock hyrax | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | African rocks | a distant relative | | | | of the elephant | tree rules | | 3 | **name** | participle | | a striped zebra *not said here* | | the story | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **die out** | past | Real biology and the Quagga | | | | | in 1883 | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1883=Attribute | 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:20`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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:…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/77-justso-leopard-spots-1/19/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4:…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/78-justso-leopard-spots-2/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/77-justso-leopard-spots-1/)