--- title: At home he knocked two brothers "head over heels", threw the Baboon… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elepha… · tree and pragmatics description: At home he knocked two brothers "head over heels", threw the Baboon (who said the trunk "looks very ugly") into a hornets' nest, pulled the Ostrich's tail-feathers, dragged the Giraffe through a thorn-bush, and blew bubbles in the Hippo's ear, "but he never let any one touch Kolokolo Bird". 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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 (Snake, Baboon, trunk, one), 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:15 # text = At home he knocked two brothers "head over heels", threw the Baboon (who said the trunk "looks very ugly") into a hornets' nest, pulled the Ostrich's tail-feathers, dragged the Giraffe through a thorn-bush, and blew bubbles in the Hippo's ear, "but he never let any one touch Kolokolo Bird". # 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 ×6, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×4 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 knocked knock VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 8 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 over over ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 heels heel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 Baboon baboon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 16 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 17 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 trunk trunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 22 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 ccomp _ _ 23 very very ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 ugly ugly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 xcomp _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 26 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 27 into into ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:det 29 hornets hornet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 ' 's PART POS _ 29 case _ _ 31 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 pulled pull VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 Ostrich ostrich PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=39:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 36 's 's PART POS _ 35 case _ _ 37 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ _ 39 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 41 dragged drag VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 Giraffe giraffe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=41:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 44 through through ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 46 thorn thorn NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 compound _ _ 47 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 46 punct _ _ 48 bush bush NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 49 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 51 blew blow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 52 bubbles bubble NOUN NNS Number=Plur 51 obj _ _ 53 in in ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 54 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 55 Hippo hippo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 57 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=57:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 56 's 's PART POS _ 55 case _ _ 57 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obl _ _ 58 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 59 " " PUNCT `` _ 63 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=51:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 60 but but CCONJ CC _ 63 cc _ _ 61 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 63 nsubj _ _ 62 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 63 advmod _ _ 63 let let VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advcl 64 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 65 det _ _ 65 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 66 nsubj _ _ 66 touch touch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 63 xcomp _ _ 67 Kolokolo Kolokolo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 68 compound _ _ 68 Bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 obj _ _ 69 " " PUNCT '' _ 63 punct _ _ 70 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **knock** | past | Snake | two brothers | | home | | head over heels *obl:unmarked* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent brother=Theme at home=Destination | | 2 | **throw** | past | Snake *not said here* | the Baboon | | | | into a hornets's nest *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer baboon=Theme into nest=Result | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Baboon | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **look** *in a quote* | present | the trunk | | | | | ugly *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **pull** | past | Snake *not said here* | the Ostrich's tail feathers | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Theme | | 6 | **drag** | past | Snake *not said here* | the Giraffe | | a thorn bush | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giraffe=Theme | | 7 | **blow** | past | Snake *not said here* | bubbles | | | | in the Hippo's ear | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent bubble=Patient in ear=Topic | | 8 | **not** **let** *in a quote* | past | Snake | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **touch** *in a quote* | infinitive | any one | Kolokolo Bird | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bird=Co-Theme | 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:15`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×6, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×4. **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:…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/80-justso-elephants-child-2/14/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5:…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/80-justso-elephants-child-2/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/80-justso-elephants-child-2/)