--- title: The "Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake" answered "in a voice of dretful… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elepha… · tree and pragmatics description: The "Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake" answered "in a voice of dretful scorn", "Have I seen a Crocodile? Who acts: Bi Coloured Python Rock Snake. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 1 (What does the Crocodile have for dinner?)» of the books course --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/79-justso-elephants-child-1/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/79-justso-elephants-child-1/) / 14 # Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 1 (What does the Crocodile have for dinner?), sentence 14 The "Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake" answered "in a voice of dretful scorn", "Have I seen a Crocodile? **Who acts:** Bi Coloured Python Rock Snake · **What happens:** answer, see · **To what, where:** voice, Crocodile · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 1 (What does the Crocodile have for dinner?)» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bi Coloured Python Rock Snake), 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:14 # text = The "Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake" answered "in a voice of dretful scorn", "Have I seen a Crocodile? # 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): R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 2 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 3 Bi bi ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 5 Coloured coloured ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 7 Python python NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ _ 9 Rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 11 Snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 13 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 dretful dretful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 scorn scorn NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 22 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 24 Have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:parataxis 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 Crocodile crocodile NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 ? ? PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=q, act=ask | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: ask* | past | the Bi Coloured Python Rock Snake | | | a voice of dretful scorn | | | tree rules | | 2 | **see** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the Bi Coloured Python Rock Snake *= snake* | a Crocodile | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crocodile=Stimulus | 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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