--- title: What will you ask me next?", and spanked him "with his scalesome, fl… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elepha… · tree and pragmatics description: What will you ask me next?", and spanked him "with his scalesome, flailsome tail"; the Elephant's Child, who was always most polite and began his questions with "'Scuse me", said "I suppose this is the same thing" (another spanking for asking) and politely helped coil him up on his rock again. 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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 (you, Child, I, this), 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:15 # text = What will you ask me next?", and spanked him "with his scalesome, flailsome tail"; the Elephant's Child, who was always most polite and began his questions with "'Scuse me", said "I suppose this is the same thing" (another spanking for asking) and politely helped coil him up on his rock again. # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 2 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 iobj _ _ 6 next next ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 spanked spank VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis 12 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 14 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 16 scalesome scalesome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 18 flailsome flailsome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 Elephant elephant PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 24 's 's PART POS _ 23 case _ _ 25 Child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 29 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 31 advmod _ _ 30 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 31 advmod _ _ 31 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 acl:relcl _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 36 with with SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 37 " " PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ _ 38 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ _ 39 Scuse scuse VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 40 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ _ 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ _ 42 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 43 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 conj _ _ 44 " " PUNCT `` _ 46 punct _ _ 45 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 46 suppose suppose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 ccomp _ _ 47 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 51 nsubj _ _ 48 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 51 cop _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 50 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 51 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 ccomp _ _ 52 " " PUNCT '' _ 46 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=51:punct 53 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 55 punct _ _ 54 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 55 det _ _ 55 spanking spanking NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 parataxis _ _ 56 for for SCONJ IN _ 57 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=57:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 57 asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 55 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=55:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 58 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 55 punct _ _ 59 and and CCONJ CC _ 61 cc _ _ 60 politely politely ADV RB _ 61 advmod _ _ 61 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 conj _ _ 62 coil coil VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 61 xcomp _ _ 63 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 62 obj _ _ 64 up up ADP RP _ 62 compound:prt _ _ 65 on on ADP IN _ 67 case _ _ 66 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 67 nmod:poss _ _ 67 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 obl _ _ 68 again again ADV RB _ 62 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=67:advmod 69 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | future | you | | me | | | next *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **spank** *in a quote* | past | the Elephant's Child | Crocodile | | | | with Crocodile's scalesome flailsome tail | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with tail=Instrument | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the Elephant's Child | | | | | always, polite *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **begin** *in a quote* | past | the Elephant's Child *not said here* | Crocodile's questions | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **scuse** | infinitive | the Elephant's Child *not said here* | me | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the Elephant's Child *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **suppose** | present | I | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 8 | **is a** | present | this | the same thing | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | gerund | another spanking *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **help** *in a quote* | past | the Bi Coloured Python Rock Snake *= snake* *not said here* | | | | | politely *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 11 | **coil up** *in a quote* | infinitive | the Bi Coloured Python Rock Snake *= snake* *not said here* | Crocodile | | Crocodile's rock | again | | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent he=Material | | 12 | **question** *in a quote* | | Crocodile | | | | | | nom question «communication transitive»: poss=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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