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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 (you, Leopard, branch sunshine), 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:18 # text = "Now you are a beauty!": on bare ground the Leopard can "look like a heap of pebbles", on naked rocks "a piece of pudding-stone" (a rock full of round pebbles), on a leafy branch "sunshine sifting through the leaves", and right across the middle of a path "nothing in particular. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 2 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 beauty beauty NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 ! ! PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 bare bare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 Leopard leopard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 17 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ _ 18 like like ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 heap heap NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 pebbles pebble NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 naked naked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 pudding pudding NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ _ 34 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 35 " " PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ 36 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 38 punct _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 appos _ _ 39 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 round round ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 pebbles pebble NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obl _ _ 43 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 38 punct _ _ 44 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 45 on on ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 leafy leafy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 branch branch NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 compound _ _ 49 " " PUNCT `` _ 48 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=48:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 50 sunshine sunshine NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 parataxis _ _ 51 sifting sift VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 50 acl _ _ 52 through through ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 51 obl _ _ 55 " " PUNCT '' _ 54 punct _ _ 56 , , PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ _ 57 and and CCONJ CC _ 61 cc _ _ 58 right right ADV RB _ 61 advmod _ _ 59 across across ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 60 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 61 det _ _ 61 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 appos _ _ 62 of of ADP IN _ 66 case _ _ 63 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 64 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=66:det 64 path path NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=66:compound 65 " " PUNCT `` _ 66 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=64:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 66 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 61 nmod _ _ 67 in in ADP IN _ 68 case _ _ 68 particular particular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 66 nmod _ _ 69 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | you | a beauty | | | now | | tree rules | | 2 | **look** *in a quote* | can | the Leopard | a piece of pudding stone | | bare ground | | like a heap of pebbles and naked rocks | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme piece=Attribute | | 3 | **sift** *in a quote* | gerund | branch sunshine *not said here* | | | the leaves | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through leaf=Location | 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: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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-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:…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/78-justso-leopard-spots-2/17/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4:…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/78-justso-leopard-spots-2/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/78-justso-leopard-spots-2/)