--- title: The hunter presses his five fingertips all over the Leopard, leaving… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Le… · tree and pragmatics description: The hunter presses his five fingertips all over the Leopard, leaving little marks in groups, and now the Leopard can look like pebbles, rocks or sunlight through leaves; the old saying "Can the leopard change his spots?" comes from here, says Kipling. Who acts: hunter, Leopard, old, saying. 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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 (hunter, Leopard, old, saying), 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:3 # text = The hunter presses his five fingertips all over the Leopard, leaving little marks in groups, and now the Leopard can look like pebbles, rocks or sunlight through leaves; the old saying "Can the leopard change his spots?" comes from here, says Kipling. # 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 hunter hunter NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 presses press VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 fingertips fingertip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 all all ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 8 over over ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Leopard leopard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 leaving leave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 13 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 marks mark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 groups group NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 23 advmod _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Leopard leopard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj 24 like like ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 pebbles pebble NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 28 or or CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 sunlight sunlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 30 through through ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 32 ; ; PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:amod 35 saying saying NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 36 " " PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct 37 Can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 leopard leopard NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 appos _ _ 41 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 spots spot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obj _ _ 43 ? ? PUNCT . _ 40 punct _ _ 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ _ 45 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 46 from from ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 45 obl _ _ 48 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 49 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 50 Kipling Kipling PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 nsubj _ _ 51 . . PUNCT . _ 49 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **press** | present | the hunter | hunter's five fingertips | | | | over the Leopard | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fingertip=Theme | | 2 | **leave** | gerund | the hunter *not said here* | little marks | | groups | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mark=Theme in group=Location | | 3 | **look** | can | the Leopard | | | | now | like pebbles and rocks or sunlight; through leaves | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through leaf=Theme | | 4 | **saying** | | old | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **change** *in a quote* | can | the leopard | hunter's spots | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Patient | | 6 | **come** | present | the saying | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from here=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **say** *speech: ask* | present | Kipling | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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:3`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4:…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/78-justso-leopard-spots-2/2/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4:…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/78-justso-leopard-spots-2/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/78-justso-leopard-spots-2/)