--- title: Real biology: a big red kangaroo can cover about eight metres (aroun… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-S… · tree and pragmatics description: Real biology: a big red kangaroo can cover about eight metres (around twenty-five feet) in one bound, so Kipling's number is about right; the tail balances it when hopping and props it like a fifth leg when it moves slowly. Who acts: big red kangaroo, number, tail. 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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 (big red kangaroo, number, tail), 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:19 # text = Real biology: a big red kangaroo can cover about eight metres (around twenty-five feet) in one bound, so Kipling's number is about right; the tail balances it when hopping and props it like a fifth leg when it moves slowly. # 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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 biology biology NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 kangaroo kangaroo NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 cover cover VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 acl:relcl _ _ 10 about about ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 13 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 14 around around ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 15 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 compound _ _ 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ _ 17 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 appos _ _ 19 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 bound bound NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 25 Kipling Kipling PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 's 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 29 about about ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:det 33 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:compound 34 balances balance VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:nsubj 36 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 37 advmod _ _ 37 hopping hop VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 34 advcl _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 props prop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:conj 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ _ 41 like like ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 fifth fifth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 leg leg NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 45 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 47 advmod _ _ 46 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 47 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=39:conj 48 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cover** | can | a big red kangaroo | eight metres | | | | in one bound | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent metre=Destination in bound=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | Kipling's number | | | | | about, right *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **balance** | present | the tail | number | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | | 4 | **hop** | gerund | the tail *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **prop** | present | the tail *not said here* | number | | | | like a fifth leg | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 6 | **move** | present | tail | | | | | slowly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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