--- title: The chase goes on all day across Australia, through deserts, mountai… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-S… · tree and pragmatics description: The chase goes on all day across Australia, through deserts, mountains and grass; at a river with no bridge the Kangaroo stands up on his back legs and hops, and his hind legs grow longer and stronger with every bound. Who acts: chase, Kangaroo, hind 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 (chase, Kangaroo, hind 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:2 # text = The chase goes on all day across Australia, through deserts, mountains and grass; at a river with no bridge the Kangaroo stands up on his back legs and hops, and his hind legs grow longer and stronger with every bound. # 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 chase chase NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 6 det _ _ 6 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 7 across across ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 through through ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 deserts desert NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 22 det _ _ 22 bridge bridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 Kangaroo Kangaroo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 25 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 26 up up ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 back back ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 hops hop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 conj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 35 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 36 hind hind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 38 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 39 longer long ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 38 xcomp _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 stronger strong ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 39 conj _ _ 42 with with ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 44 det _ _ 44 bound bound NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 45 . . 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 | **go** | present | the chase | | | Australia | day | through deserts and mountains and grass | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme across australia=Initial\_Location through desert=Destination | | 2 | **stand up** | present | the Kangaroo | | | a river with no bridge | | on Kangaroo's back legs and hops | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at river=Location | | 3 | **grow** | present | Kangaroo's hind legs | | | | | with every bound; long *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:081-justso-old-man-kangaroo.lesson:2`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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:…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/81-justso-old-man-kangaroo/1/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6:…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/81-justso-old-man-kangaroo/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/81-justso-old-man-kangaroo/)