--- title: In old stories grown-ups spank children all the time; today we know… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elepha… · tree and pragmatics description: In old stories grown-ups spank children all the time; today we know that hitting children is wrong, and Kipling makes it silly on purpose. Who acts: grown ups, we, hitting, Kipling. 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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 (grown ups, we, hitting, Kipling), 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:8 # text = In old stories grown-ups spank children all the time; today we know that hitting children is wrong, and Kipling makes it silly on purpose. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 4 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 6 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 spank spank VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 11 det:predet _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 13 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 14 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 16 that that SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 17 hitting hit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 csubj _ _ 18 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 ccomp _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 Kipling Kipling PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 silly silly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **spank** | present | grown ups | children | | old stories | time | | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent child=Patient in story=Location | | 3 | **know** | present | we | | | | today | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **hit** | gerund | | children | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme child=Co-Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | hitting | | | | | wrong *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **make** | present | Kipling | skin | | purpose | | silly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | 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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