--- title: One morning he asks the one question nobody dares to answer, "What d… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elepha… · tree and pragmatics description: One morning he asks the one question nobody dares to answer, "What does the Crocodile have for dinner?", and the Kolokolo Bird tells him to go and find out at the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River. Who acts: Child, nobody, Crocodile, Kolokolo Bird. 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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 (Child, nobody, Crocodile, Kolokolo Bird), 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:1 # text = One morning he asks the one question nobody dares to answer, "What does the Crocodile have for dinner?", and the Kolokolo Bird tells him to go and find out at the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River. # 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): R5-strong ×7, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det 6 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 7 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:compound 8 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 9 nsubj _ _ 9 dares dare VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 answer answer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 14 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 18 obj _ _ 15 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 Crocodile crocodile NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 21 ? ? PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 Kolokolo Kolokolo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 Bird bird PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 28 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 29 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ _ 34 out out ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ _ 35 at at ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:det 37 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:amod 38 grey grey NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ _ 40 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 greasy greasy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 43 Limpopo Limpopo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 River River PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:appos 45 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Child | the one question | | | morning | | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent question=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **dare** | present | nobody | the one question *not said here* | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent question=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | nobody *not said here* | | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **have** *in a quote* | present · do-support | the Crocodile | | | | | for dinner | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the Kolokolo Bird | | Child | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Kolokolo Bird *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **find out** | infinitive | the Kolokolo Bird *not said here* | the great green greasy Limpopo River | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: 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. 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