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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 (nose, Snake, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:080-justso-elephants-child-2.lesson:10 # text = He first said "Thank you" to the Snake, then wrapped his nose in cool banana leaves and hung it in the river; the Snake said "Some people do not know what is good for them." # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 080-justso-elephants-child-2.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 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 3 advmod _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 Thank thank VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Snake Snake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 13 advmod _ _ 13 wrapped wrap VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 cool cool ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 banana banana NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 hung hang VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 Snake Snake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 30 " " PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ _ 31 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 32 det _ _ 32 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 33 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 35 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 ccomp _ _ 36 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 38 nsubj _ _ 37 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 38 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 ccomp _ _ 39 for for ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 35 punct _ _ 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | nose | | | | | first *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | present | | | you | | | to the Snake | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 3 | **wrap** | past | nose *not said here* | nose's nose | | cool banana leaves | then | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent nose=Theme in leaf=Destination | | 4 | **hang** | past | nose *not said here* | plop | | the river | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in river=Destination | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Snake | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **not** **know** *in a quote* | present · do-support | some people | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | for people; good *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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:080-justso-elephants-child-2.lesson:10`. **The tree:** 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. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5:…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/80-justso-elephants-child-2/9/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5:…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/80-justso-elephants-child-2/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/80-justso-elephants-child-2/)