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title: This is the seventh of Kipling's twelve Just So Stories (1902); it b… — Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos… · tree and pragmatics
description: This is the seventh of Kipling's twelve Just So Stories (1902); it begins again with «O Best Beloved» and «the High and Far-Off Times», like the Elephant's Child. Who acts: This, seventh. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1: Painted Jaguar and the muddl
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# Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1: Painted Jaguar and the muddled advice, sentence 11

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This is the seventh of Kipling's twelve Just So Stories (1902); it begins again with «O Best Beloved» and «the High and Far-Off Times», like the Elephant's Child.

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**Who acts:** This, seventh · **What happens:** be, begin · **To what, where:** seventh

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1: Painted Jaguar and the muddled advice» 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 (This, seventh), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:082-justso-armadillos-1-painted-jaguar.lesson:11
# text = This is the seventh of Kipling's twelve Just So Stories (1902); it begins again with «O Best Beloved» and «the High and Far-Off Times», like the Elephant's Child.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 082-justso-armadillos-1-painted-jaguar.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	seventh	seventh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
6	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
9	Just	Just	PROPN	NNP	_	11	flat	_	_
10	So	so	PROPN	NNP	_	11	flat	_	_
11	Stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
13	1902	1902	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	appos	_	_
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	begins	begin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
18	again	again	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
21	O	o	INTJ	UH	Abbr=Yes	23	vocative	_	_
22	Best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	amod	_	_
23	Beloved	beloved	PROPN	NNP	_	17	obl	_	_
24	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
26	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
28	High	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	Far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	33	advmod	_	_
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct
32	Off	off	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:obl:unmarked
34	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	like	like	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	Elephant	elephant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=40:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
39	's	's	PART	POS	_	38	case	_	_
40	Child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is a** | present | This | the seventh |  |  |  | of Kipling's twelve Just So Stories | tree rules |
| 2 | **begin** | present | seventh |  |  |  | again | with Best Beloved and the High Times | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with beloved=Subeventuality |

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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:082-justso-armadillos-1-painted-jaguar.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 ×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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