--- title: Once the Kangaroo was a grey, woolly animal with four short legs and… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-S… · tree and pragmatics description: Once the Kangaroo was a grey, woolly animal with four short legs and far too much pride, and he went to three made-up gods in turn, asking to be made "different from all other animals" by five o'clock that afternoon. Who acts: Kangaroo, five o'clock. 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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 (Kangaroo, five o'clock), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:081-justso-old-man-kangaroo.lesson:0 # text = Once the Kangaroo was a grey, woolly animal with four short legs and far too much pride, and he went to three made-up gods in turn, asking to be made "different from all other animals" by five o'clock that afternoon. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 081-justso-old-man-kangaroo.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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Once once SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Kangaroo Kangaroo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det 6 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 woolly woolly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 12 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 17 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advmod 16 too too ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 pride pride NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 24 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 25 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 amod _ _ 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ _ 27 up up ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=25:compound 28 gods god NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 turn turn NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:nmod 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:acl 33 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 34 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 35 aux:pass _ _ 35 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 xcomp _ _ 36 " " PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 37 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 xcomp _ _ 38 from from ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 41 det _ _ 40 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ _ 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=41:punct 43 by by ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 45 nummod _ _ 45 o'clock o'clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 46 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 47 det _ _ 47 afternoon afternoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod:unmarked _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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** | past | | | | | | grey *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **go** | past | Kangaroo | | | turn | | to three made gods | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to god=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **make up** | participle | | | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | Kangaroo *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | five o'clock that afternoon | | | | | different *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | 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:081-justso-old-man-kangaroo.lesson:0`. **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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-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:…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/80-justso-elephants-child-2/22/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6:…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/81-justso-old-man-kangaroo/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/81-justso-old-man-kangaroo/)