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title: «Turbid» means muddy and cloudy; Kipling calls the Amazon «the turbi… — Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos… · tree and pragmatics
description: «Turbid» means muddy and cloudy; Kipling calls the Amazon «the turbid Amazon» again and again. Who acts: Turbid, Kipling. 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 with its d
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# Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1: Painted Jaguar and the muddled advice, sentence 13

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«Turbid» means muddy and cloudy; Kipling calls the Amazon «the turbid Amazon» again and again.

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**Who acts:** Turbid, Kipling · **What happens:** mean, call · **To what, where:** Amazon · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Turbid, Kipling), 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:13
# text = «Turbid» means muddy and cloudy; Kipling calls the Amazon «the turbid Amazon» again and again.
# 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	«	«	SYM	NFP	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	Turbid	turbid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
3	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	muddy	muddy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	cloudy	cloudy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
10	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Amazon	Amazon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
13	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	turbid	turbid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Amazon	amazon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
18	again	again	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	conj	_	_
21	.	.	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 | **mean** | present | Turbid |  |  |  |  | muddy *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **call** | present | Kipling |  | the Amazon |  | again |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent amazon=Recipient |

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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:13`.

**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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