--- title: He took "a hundred pounds of bananas (the little short red kind)", "… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elepha… · tree and pragmatics description: He took "a hundred pounds of bananas (the little short red kind)", "a hundred pounds of sugar-cane (the long purple kind)", and "seventeen melons (the greeny-crackly kind)". Who acts: 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 (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:11 # text = He took "a hundred pounds of bananas (the little short red kind)", "a hundred pounds of sugar-cane (the long purple kind)", and "seventeen melons (the greeny-crackly kind)". # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det 5 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 pounds pound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 bananas banana NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 9 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 11 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 12 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 15 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 pounds pound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj 22 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ _ 25 cane cane NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 26 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 30 punct _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 28 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 29 purple purple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 30 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 appos _ _ 31 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 30 punct _ _ 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 " " PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ _ 36 seventeen seventeen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ _ 37 melons melon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 appos _ _ 38 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 43 punct _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 40 greeny greeny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 41 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 40 punct _ _ 42 crackly crackly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:conj 44 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 43 punct _ _ 45 " " PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | Bird | hundred pounds of bananas and the little short red kind and a hundred pounds of sugar cane | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pound=Theme | 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. 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