--- title: The song at the end calls him "a Boomer" (Australian for a big male… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-S… · tree and pragmatics description: The song at the end calls him "a Boomer" (Australian for a big male kangaroo), says his back legs worked "like pistons", "Twenty-five feet to a bound", and that they ran "From Torres Straits to the Leeuwin", the far north and far south-west corners of Australia. Who acts: song, back legs, 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 (song, back legs, 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:17 # text = The song at the end calls him "a Boomer" (Australian for a big male kangaroo), says his back legs worked "like pistons", "Twenty-five feet to a bound", and that they ran "From Torres Straits to the Leeuwin", the far north and far south-west corners of Australia. # 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 ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 calls call VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Boomer boomer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:xcomp|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 13 Australian Australian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 appos _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 17 male male ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 18 kangaroo kangaroo NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 19 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 back back ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:amod 24 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 worked work VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 ccomp _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 27 like like ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 pistons piston NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 31 " " PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 32 Twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 34 compound _ _ 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ _ 34 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 35 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nmod:unmarked _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 bound bound NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 42 that that SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 43 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 45 " " PUNCT `` _ 48 punct _ _ 46 From from ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 Torres Torres PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 compound _ _ 48 Straits Strait PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 44 obl _ _ 49 to to ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 Leeuwin Leeuwin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 nmod _ _ 52 " " PUNCT '' _ 48 punct _ _ 53 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 54 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 62 det _ _ 55 far far ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=56:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 56 north north NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=62:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 57 and and CCONJ CC _ 62 cc _ _ 58 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 62 advmod _ _ 59 south south ADV RB _ 58 advmod _ _ 60 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 58 punct _ _ 61 west west ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 62 amod _ _ 62 corners corner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 appos _ _ 63 of of ADP IN _ 64 case _ _ 64 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 62 nmod _ _ 65 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | present | the song at the end | Dingo | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme bound=Result | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the song at the end *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **work** | past | Dingo's back legs | | | | | like pistons | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **run** | past | legs *= leg* | | | Torres Straits to the Leeuwin | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from strait=Trajectory | 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:17`. **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 ×4, 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), 6:…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/81-justso-old-man-kangaroo/16/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6:…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/81-justso-old-man-kangaroo/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/81-justso-old-man-kangaroo/)