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A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 2 (the tug-of-war and the trunk)» of the books course o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/80-justso-elephants-child-2/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/80-justso-elephants-child-2/) / 9 # Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 2 (the tug-of-war and the trunk), sentence 9 "At last the Crocodile let go of the Elephant's Child's nose with a plop that you could hear all up and down the Limpopo." **Who acts:** last Crocodile, you · **What happens:** let, go, hear · **To what, where:** plop This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 2 (the tug-of-war and the trunk)» 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 (last Crocodile, you), 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:9 # text = "At last the Crocodile let go of the Elephant's Child's nose with a plop that you could hear all up and down the Limpopo." # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 2 At at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Crocodile crocodile PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Elephant elephant PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 Child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nmod 15 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 plop plop NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 18 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 obj _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 acl:relcl _ _ 22 all all ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 up up ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 down down ADP IN _ 23 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:case 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 Limpopo limpopo NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 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 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | the last Crocodile | | | | | with a plop | tree rules | | 2 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | the last Crocodile *not said here* | | | | | of the Elephant's Child's nose | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of nose=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **hear** *in a quote* | could | you | a plop | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | 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:9`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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:…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/80-justso-elephants-child-2/8/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5:…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/80-justso-elephants-child-2/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/80-justso-elephants-child-2/)