--- title: Long ago elephants had no trunk, only a bulgy nose as big as a boot,… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elepha… · tree and pragmatics description: Long ago elephants had no trunk, only a bulgy nose as big as a boot, and one young Elephant's Child was so full of "'satiable curtiosity" (endless curiosity) that he asked everybody questions, and all his aunts and uncles spanked him for it. Who acts: elephants, Child, aunts. 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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 (elephants, Child, aunts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:079-justso-elephants-child-1.lesson:0 # text = Long ago elephants had no trunk, only a bulgy nose as big as a boot, and one young Elephant's Child was so full of "'satiable curtiosity" (endless curiosity) that he asked everybody questions, and all his aunts and uncles spanked him for it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 079-justso-elephants-child-1.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 2 advmod _ _ 2 ago ago ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 3 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 6 det _ _ 6 trunk trunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 only only ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 bulgy bulgy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 12 as as ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 14 as as ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 boot boot NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 19 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 20 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 Elephant elephant PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 Child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis 27 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 29 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 30 satiable satiable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 curtiosity curtiosity NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 33 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 35 punct _ _ 34 endless endless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 curiosity curiosity NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 appos _ _ 36 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 35 punct _ _ 37 that that SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 38 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 40 everybody everybody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 39 iobj _ _ 41 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obj _ _ 42 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 44 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 46 det:predet _ _ 45 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 aunts aunt NOUN NNS Number=Plur 49 nsubj _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 48 uncles uncle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 conj _ _ 49 spanked spank VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 50 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 obj _ _ 51 for for ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 obl _ _ 53 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | elephants | no trunk | | | | ago *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trunk=Patient | | 2 | **is** | past | one young Elephant's Child | | | | | of satiable curtiosity; full *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Child | questions | everybody | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **spank** | past | Child's aunts and uncles | Child | | | | for curiosity | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | 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:079-justso-elephants-child-1.lesson:0`. **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): 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:…, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/78-justso-leopard-spots-2/23/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5:…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/79-justso-elephants-child-1/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/79-justso-elephants-child-1/)