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title: Real biology: every leopard has its own pattern, like a fingerprint,… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Le… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real biology: every leopard has its own pattern, like a fingerprint, so scientists can tell leopards apart on hidden cameras; even black leopards ("black panthers") have faint rosettes. Who acts: leopard, scientists, black leopards, biology. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling
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# Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got his Spots, part 2 (One, two, three, and where's your breakfast?), sentence 22

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Real biology: every leopard has its own pattern, like a fingerprint, so scientists can tell leopards apart on hidden cameras; even black leopards ("black panthers") have faint rosettes.

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**Who acts:** leopard, scientists, black leopards, biology · **What happens:** have, tell, pattern · **To what, where:** own pattern, leopards, hidden cameras, faint rosettes · **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 2 (One, two, three, and where's your breakfast?)» 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 (leopard, scientists, black leopards, biology), 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:22
# text = Real biology: every leopard has its own pattern, like a fingerprint, so scientists can tell leopards apart on hidden cameras; even black leopards ("black panthers") have faint rosettes.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	biology	biology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	leopard	leopard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	pattern	pattern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	fingerprint	fingerprint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
16	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
19	leopards	leopard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	cameras	camera	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
25	even	even	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	leopards	leopard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:appos
28	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	31	punct	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	_
30	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	panthers	panther	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	appos	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
33	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	31	punct	_	_
34	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
35	faint	faint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	rosettes	rosette	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | every leopard | biology's own pattern |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pattern=Patient |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | scientists |  | leopards | hidden cameras |  | apart *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent leopard=Recipient |
| 3 | **have** | present | black leopards | faint rosettes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rosette=Patient |
| 4 | **pattern** |  | biology |  |  |  |  |  | nom pattern «cognition 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:078-justso-leopard-spots-2.lesson:22`.

**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, R7-rel-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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