--- title: The poem after the story praises questions: Kipling's "six honest se… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elepha… · tree and pragmatics description: The poem after the story praises questions: Kipling's "six honest serving-men" are What, Where, When, How, Why and Who, and a small curious child keeps millions of them busy. Who acts: poem, six honest serving men, small curious child. 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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 (poem, six honest serving men, small curious child), 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:4 # text = The poem after the story praises questions: Kipling's "six honest serving-men" are What, Where, When, How, Why and Who, and a small curious child keeps millions of them busy. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 poem poem NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 after after ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 praises praise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 9 Kipling Kipling PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 12 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 13 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 14 serving serving NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ _ 16 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 What what PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 parataxis _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 21 Where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 19 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 23 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Rel 19 conj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 Who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 19 conj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 33 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 34 curious curious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 37 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nmod _ _ 40 busy busy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 xcomp _ _ 41 . . 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 | **praise** | present | the poem after the story | questions | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | Kipling's six honest serving men | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **keep** | present | a small curious child | millions of men | | | | busy *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent million=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. 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