--- title: The Giraffe was "covered all over with chestnut blotches" and the Ze… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Le… · tree and pragmatics description: The Giraffe was "covered all over with chestnut blotches" and the Zebra "covered all over with black and purple stripes"; "fulvous" and "tawny" are old words for a golden yellow-brown. Who acts: Zebra. 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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 (Zebra), 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:8 # text = The Giraffe was "covered all over with chestnut blotches" and the Zebra "covered all over with black and purple stripes"; "fulvous" and "tawny" are old words for a golden yellow-brown. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Giraffe giraffe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 all all ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 over over ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 chestnut chestnut NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 blotches blotch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 Zebra zebra NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 16 covered cover VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 17 all all ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 over over ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 20 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 purple purple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 conj _ _ 23 stripes stripe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 27 fulvous fulvous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 parataxis _ _ 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 30 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 31 tawny tawny NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:compound 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 33 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj 36 for for ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 38 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 39 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 40 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 39 punct _ _ 41 brown brown NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cover** *in a quote* | past · passive | | the Giraffe | | | | with chestnut blotches; over *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with blotch=Theme | | 2 | **cover** *in a quote* | past | the Zebra | | | | | with black stripes; over *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with stripe=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | | old words | | | | for a golden yellow brown | tree rules | 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:8`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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:…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/78-justso-leopard-spots-2/7/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4:…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/78-justso-leopard-spots-2/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/78-justso-leopard-spots-2/)