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description: Parts of this story use old words and ideas about people that are racist and wrong; we leave those out and read the animal story, which is about camouflage, matching where you live. Who acts: Parts, people, we, animal story. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leo
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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 4

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Parts of this story use old words and ideas about people that are racist and wrong; we leave those out and read the animal story, which is about camouflage, matching where you live.

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**Who acts:** Parts, people, we, animal story, you · **What happens:** use, be, leave out, read, live · **To what, where:** old words, those, animal story

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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 (Parts, people, we, animal story), 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:4
# text = Parts of this story use old words and ideas about people that are racist and wrong; we leave those out and read the animal story, which is about camouflage, matching where you live.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	racist	racist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	leave	leave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
20	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	19	obj	_	_
21	out	out	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	read	read	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	about	about	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	camouflage	camouflage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:appos
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	matching	matching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
34	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	36	advmod	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present | Parts of this story | old words and ideas |  |  |  | about people | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | people |  |  |  |  | racist *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **leave out** | present | we | those |  |  |  | out *property* | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 5 | **read** | present | we *not said here* | the animal story |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Topic |
| 6 | **is** | present | the animal story |  |  |  |  | about camouflage and matching | tree rules |
| 7 | **live** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:4`.

**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 ×1, 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/).

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