--- title: His families "spanked him once more for luck", and he went off "a li… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elepha… · tree and pragmatics description: His families "spanked him once more for luck", and he went off "a little warm, but not at all astonished", "throwing the rind about, because he could not pick it up". Who acts: families, 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 (families, 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:12 # text = His families "spanked him once more for luck", and he went off "a little warm, but not at all astonished", "throwing the rind about, because he could not pick it up". # 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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×5, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 4 spanked spank VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 7 advmod _ _ 7 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 4 advmod _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 luck luck NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obl 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 15 off off ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 19 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:case 24 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 25 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:det 25 astonished astonished ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:parataxis 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 29 throwing throw VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advcl 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 rind rind NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 about about ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 34 because because SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 36 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 37 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 38 advmod _ _ 38 pick pick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 advcl _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 up up ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ _ 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=38:punct 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spank** *in a quote* | past | Bird's families | Bird | | | | for luck | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | | 2 | **go off** | past | Bird | | | | | warm *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **throw** *in a quote* | gerund | Bird *not said here* | the rind | | | | about *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rind=Theme | | 4 | **not** **pick up** *in a quote* | could | Bird | rind | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | 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:12`. **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): R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×5, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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), 5:…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/79-justso-elephants-child-1/11/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5:…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/79-justso-elephants-child-1/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/79-justso-elephants-child-1/)