--- title: The Zebra and the Giraffe show off their trick: they step into the s… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Le… · tree and pragmatics description: The Zebra and the Giraffe show off their trick: they step into the striped and blotchy shadows, count "One--two--three!", and vanish, laughing "where's your breakfast?" Who acts: Zebra, Giraffe, breakfast. 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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 (Zebra, Giraffe, breakfast), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:078-justso-leopard-spots-2.lesson:1 # text = The Zebra and the Giraffe show off their trick: they step into the striped and blotchy shadows, count "One--two--three!", and vanish, laughing "where's your breakfast?" # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 078-justso-leopard-spots-2.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Zebra Zebra PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Giraffe giraffe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 off off ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 step step VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 13 into into ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 15 striped stripe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 blotchy blotchy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ _ 18 shadows shadow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 count count VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 22 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 obj _ _ 23 -- -- PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:conj 25 -- -- PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 conj _ _ 27 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 vanish vanish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 laughing laugh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 advcl _ _ 34 " " PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ _ 35 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 33 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:obl 36 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 37 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 breakfast breakfast NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 39 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show off** | present | the Zebra and the Giraffe | Giraffe's trick | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent trick=Recipient | | 2 | **step** | present | Giraffe | | | the striped shadows | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into shadow=Destination | | 3 | **count** | present | Giraffe *not said here* | One | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | | 4 | **vanish** | present | the Zebra and the Giraffe *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **laugh** | gerund | the Zebra and the Giraffe *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | your breakfast | | | | | where *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **trick** | | Giraffe | | | | | | nom trick «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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:078-justso-leopard-spots-2.lesson:1`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4:…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/78-justso-leopard-spots-2/0/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4:…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/78-justso-leopard-spots-2/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/78-justso-leopard-spots-2/)