--- title: Real biology: a leopard's markings are "rosettes", rose-shaped rings… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Le… · tree and pragmatics description: Real biology: a leopard's markings are "rosettes", rose-shaped rings of dark spots with a lighter middle; they are not prints of five fingers, and they are in the leopard's genes from birth. Who acts: markings, Leopard. 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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 (markings, Leopard), 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:21 # text = Real biology: a leopard's markings are "rosettes", rose-shaped rings of dark spots with a lighter middle; they are not prints of five fingers, and they are in the leopard's genes from birth. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 biology biology NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 leopard leopard NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 markings marking NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 rosettes rosette NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 appos _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 rose rose ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 compound _ _ 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ _ 15 shaped shape VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 16 rings ring NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 appos _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 spots spot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 lighter light ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 23 amod _ _ 23 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 prints print NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 parataxis _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 fingers finger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=28:cc 34 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 35 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 leopard leopard NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod:poss _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=40:compound 39 's 's PART POS _ 38 case _ _ 40 genes gene NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ _ 41 from from ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 birth birth NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 43 . . 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 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | a leopard's markings | rosettes | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **shape** | participle | | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **not** **is a** | present | Leopard | prints and the leopard's genes from birth | | | | of five fingers | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | Leopard | | | | | in the leopard | tree rules | | 5 | **mark** | | a leopard | | | | | | nom marking «communication 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. 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