--- title: "'Vantage" is short for "advantage" (a good point): one, he swatted… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elepha… · tree and pragmatics description: "'Vantage" is short for "advantage" (a good point): one, he swatted a fly dead; two, he plucked grass, dusted it clean against his fore-legs and ate it; three, he "schlooped up a schloop of mud" and made a cool mud-cap. Who acts: Vantage, Snake. 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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 (Vantage, Snake), 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:12 # text = "'Vantage" is short for "advantage" (a good point): one, he swatted a fly dead; two, he plucked grass, dusted it clean against his fore-legs and ate it; three, he "schlooped up a schloop of mud" and made a cool mud-cap. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 2 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 3 Vantage vantage NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 9 advantage advantage NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 11 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 point point NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ _ 15 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 17 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 dep _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 swatted swat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 fly fly NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 plucked pluck VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 29 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 dusted dust VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 clean clean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 xcomp _ _ 34 against against ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 35 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 36 fore fore NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ _ 38 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:obl 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 ; ; PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 43 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 40 obl _ _ 44 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 45 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 46 " " PUNCT `` _ 47 punct _ _ 47 schlooped schloop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 48 up up ADP RP _ 47 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=47:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 49 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 schloop schloop NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obj _ _ 51 of of ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 mud mud NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nmod _ _ 53 " " PUNCT '' _ 47 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=52:punct 54 and and CCONJ CC _ 55 cc _ _ 55 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 conj _ _ 56 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 60 det _ _ 57 cool cool ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 60 amod _ _ 58 mud mud NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 compound _ _ 59 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 58 punct _ _ 60 cap cap NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 obj _ _ 61 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Vantage | | | | | for advantage; short *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **swat** | past | Snake | a fly | | | | dead *property* | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Patient | | 3 | **pluck** | past | Snake | grass | | | | | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient | | 4 | **dust** | past | Snake *not said here* | grass | | Snake's fore legs | | clean *property* | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme against leg=Destination | | 5 | **eat** | past | Snake *not said here* | grass | | | | three *obl* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 6 | **schloop up** *in a quote* | past | Snake | a schloop of mud | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **make** | past | Snake *not said here* | a cool mud cap | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cap=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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