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title: The Giraffe, the Zebra, the Eland, the Koodoo (kudu) and the Hartebe… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Le… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Giraffe, the Zebra, the Eland, the Koodoo (kudu) and the Hartebeest lived there and were all "sandy-yellow-brownish all over"; eland, kudu and hartebeest are real African antelopes. Who acts: Giraffe, eland. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got his 
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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 7

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The Giraffe, the Zebra, the Eland, the Koodoo (kudu) and the Hartebeest lived there and were all "sandy-yellow-brownish all over"; eland, kudu and hartebeest are real African antelopes.

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**Who acts:** Giraffe, eland · **What happens:** live, be · **To what, where:** real African antelopes

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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 (Giraffe, eland), 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:7
# text = The Giraffe, the Zebra, the Eland, the Koodoo (kudu) and the Hartebeest lived there and were all "sandy-yellow-brownish all over"; eland, kudu and hartebeest are real African antelopes.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Giraffe	giraffe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Zebra	Zebra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Eland	Eland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Koodoo	koodoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
13	kudu	kudu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Hartebeest	hartebeest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
18	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
22	all	all	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	_
24	sandy	sandy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	_
26	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	_
28	brownish	brownish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
29	all	all	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=41:advmod
30	over	over	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=41:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=41:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
32	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	eland	eland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	kudu	kudu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:appos
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	hartebeest	hartebeest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
38	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
39	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
40	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	antelopes	antelope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	parataxis	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	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 | **live** | past | the Giraffe and the Zebra and the Eland |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the Giraffe and the Zebra and the Eland *not said here* |  |  |  |  | all, brownish, over *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | eland and kudu and hartebeest | real African antelopes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:7`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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