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title: Kipling keeps saying "'sclusively", his baby-talk for "exclusively",… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Le… · tree and pragmatics
description: Kipling keeps saying "'sclusively", his baby-talk for "exclusively", which here means "only, completely". Who acts: Kipling, baby talk. 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
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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 6

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Kipling keeps saying "'sclusively", his baby-talk for "exclusively", which here means "only, completely".

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**Who acts:** Kipling, baby talk · **What happens:** keep, say, mean, talk · **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 (Kipling, baby talk), 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:6
# text = Kipling keeps saying "'sclusively", his baby-talk for "exclusively", which here means "only, completely".
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	sclusively	sclusively	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	obj	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
12	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
15	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	RB	_	12	nmod	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advmod
20	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl:relcl	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
22	only	only	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	20	conj	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **keep** | present | Kipling |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Kipling *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sclusively=Topic |
| 3 | **mean** | present | Kipling's baby talk |  |  | here |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **talk** |  | Kipling |  |  |  |  |  | nom talk «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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:6`.

**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, 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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