--- title: "'Satiable curtiosity" is Kipling's baby-talk for "insatiable curios… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elepha… · tree and pragmatics description: "'Satiable curtiosity" is Kipling's baby-talk for "insatiable curiosity", wanting to know things so much that you are never satisfied. Who acts: Satiable curtiosity, baby talk, you. 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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 (Satiable curtiosity, baby talk, you), 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:6 # text = "'Satiable curtiosity" is Kipling's baby-talk for "insatiable curiosity", wanting to know things so much that you are never satisfied. # 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 2 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 3 Satiable satiable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 curtiosity curtiosity NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 7 Kipling Kipling PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ _ 11 talk talk NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 14 insatiable insatiable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 curiosity curiosity NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 wanting want VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 acl _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 much much ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 24 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 satisfied satisfied ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 advcl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 11 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 | **is a** | present | Satiable curtiosity | Kipling's baby talk | | | | for insatiable curiosity | tree rules | | 2 | **want** | gerund | Kipling's baby talk *not said here* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 3 | **know** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Kipling's baby talk *not said here* | things | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | | 4 | **not** **is** | present | you | | | | | satisfied *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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