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description: Each time he asked for more: first "Make me different from all other animals", then also "wonderfully popular", then also "popular and wonderfully run after", all "by five this afternoon". Who acts: Kangaroo, you. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-Song of Old M
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# Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 8

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Each time he asked for more: first "Make me different from all other animals", then also "wonderfully popular", then also "popular and wonderfully run after", all "by five this afternoon".

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**Who acts:** Kangaroo, you · **What happens:** ask, make, run after · **To what, where:** time, Kangaroo · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kangaroo, you), 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:8
# text = Each time he asked for more: first "Make me different from all other animals", then also "wonderfully popular", then also "popular and wonderfully run after", all "by five this 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×5, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	advmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:advmod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
10	Make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
20	also	also	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
22	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:parataxis
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
27	also	also	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
29	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	run	run	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
33	after	after	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	39	nsubj	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36:punct
38	by	by	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	obl	_	_
40	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	41	det	_	_
41	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:obl:unmarked
42	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	39	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Kangaroo | each time *not said here* |  |  |  | for more | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent time=Recipient |
| 2 | **make** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | Kangaroo |  |  | time | different, first *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product |
| 3 | **run after** *in a quote* | participle | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | wonderfully *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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:8`.

**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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×5, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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/).

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