--- title: The Kangaroo ran through "the desert", "the mountains", "the salt-pa… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-S… · tree and pragmatics description: The Kangaroo ran through "the desert", "the mountains", "the salt-pans", "the reed-beds", "the blue gums" (eucalyptus trees) and "the spinifex" (spiky grass), till his front legs ached. Who acts: Kangaroo, front legs. 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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, front legs), 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:11 # text = The Kangaroo ran through "the desert", "the mountains", "the salt-pans", "the reed-beds", "the blue gums" (eucalyptus trees) and "the spinifex" (spiky grass), till his front legs ached. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×5 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Kangaroo Kangaroo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 through through ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 desert desert NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:appos 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 17 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ _ 19 pans pan NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 appos _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 reed reed NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ _ 26 beds bed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:appos 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 gums gum NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ 34 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 36 punct _ _ 35 eucalyptus eucalyptus NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 appos _ _ 37 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 36 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 39 " " PUNCT `` _ 41 punct _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 spinifex spinifex NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ _ 43 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 45 punct _ _ 44 spiky spiky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 appos _ _ 46 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 45 punct _ _ 47 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 48 till till SCONJ IN _ 52 mark _ _ 49 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 51 nmod:poss _ _ 50 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 51 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 52 nsubj _ _ 52 ached ache VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 53 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run** | past | the Kangaroo | | | the desert and the mountains and the reed beds and the blue gums and the spinifex | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through desert=Trajectory | | 2 | **ache** | past | Kangaroo's front legs | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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:11`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×5. **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), 6:…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/81-justso-old-man-kangaroo/10/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6:…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/81-justso-old-man-kangaroo/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/81-justso-old-man-kangaroo/)