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"in a loud and dretful tone" ("dretful" = dreadful). **Who acts:** Crocodile, new question, everybody, Child · **What happens:** have, make, say, question · **To what, where:** Hush, loud tone · **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 (Crocodile, new question, everybody, Child), 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:9 # text = His new question, "What does the Crocodile have for dinner?", made everybody say "Hush!" "in a loud and dretful tone" ("dretful" = dreadful). # 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 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 6 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 10 obj _ _ 7 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Crocodile crocodile NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 everybody everybody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 18 nsubj _ _ 18 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 20 Hush hush NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 ! ! PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 24 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 26 loud loud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 dretful dretful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 conj _ _ 29 tone tone NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 31 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 33 punct _ _ 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ _ 33 dretful dretful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 appos _ _ 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 35 = = SYM SYM _ 36 dep _ _ 36 dreadful dreadful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 conj _ _ 37 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 33 punct _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present · do-support | the Crocodile | | | | | for dinner | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | | 2 | **make** | past | Child's new question | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | everybody | Hush | | a loud tone | | | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent hush=Theme in tone=Manner | | 4 | **question** | | Child | | | | | | 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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