--- title: Real biology: Nile crocodiles really do lie still like logs at the w… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elepha… · tree and pragmatics description: Real biology: Nile crocodiles really do lie still like logs at the water's edge and ambush animals that come to drink, even big ones; that is why going close to a crocodile is truly dangerous. Who acts: Nile crocodiles, animals, that, going. 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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 (Nile crocodiles, animals, that, going), 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:22 # text = Real biology: Nile crocodiles really do lie still like logs at the water's edge and ambush animals that come to drink, even big ones; that is why going close to a crocodile is truly dangerous. # 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 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 biology biology NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 4 Nile Nile PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 crocodiles crocodile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 6 really really ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 7 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 lie lie VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 acl:relcl _ _ 9 still still ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 like like ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 logs log NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 's 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 edge edge NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 ambush ambush VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 19 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 20 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 even even ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 26 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 29 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 31 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 39 advmod _ _ 32 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 39 csubj _ _ 33 close close ADV RB Degree=Pos 32 advmod _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 crocodile crocodile NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 37 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 38 truly truly ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 dangerous dangerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | present · do-support | Nile crocodiles *not said here* | | | the water's edge and animals | still | like logs | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at edge=Location | | 2 | **ambush** | present | Nile crocodiles *not said here* | | | | | | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **come** | present | animals | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **drink** | to-infinitive | animals *not said here* | big ones | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | | 5 | **is** | present | that | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **go** | gerund | | | | | | to a crocodile; close *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to crocodile=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **is** | present | going | | | | | dangerous, truly *property* | tree rules | 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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