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description: At "bright morning-time" the Leopard asked, "What have you at your end of the table, Brother?", joking that their catches were their breakfast. Who acts: Leopard, you, catches. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got his Spots, part 2 (One, two, three, and
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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 7

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At "bright morning-time" the Leopard asked, "What have you at your end of the table, Brother?", joking that their catches were their breakfast.

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**Who acts:** Leopard, you, catches · **What happens:** ask, have, joke, be · **To what, where:** end, breakfast · **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, you, catches), 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:7
# text = At "bright morning-time" the Leopard asked, "What have you at your end of the table, Brother?", joking that their catches were their breakfast.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
3	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Leopard	leopard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
10	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
13	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	obj	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	joking	joke	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	catches	catch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
31	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	ccomp	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the Leopard |  |  |  | time |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  | at your end of the table and Brother |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
| 3 | **joke** *speech: other* | gerund | the Leopard *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past | Leopard's catches | Leopard's breakfast |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:7`.

**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): 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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