--- title: In Kipling's earlier tale the Leopard got his spots from a man's fin… — Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos… · tree and pragmatics description: In Kipling's earlier tale the Leopard got his spots from a man's fingertips, which is made up too. Who acts: Leopard, 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/82-justso-armadillos-1-painted-jaguar/30/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [Just So Stories, The Beginning of the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/82-justso-armadillos-1-painted-jaguar/) / 30 # Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1: Painted Jaguar and the muddled advice, sentence 30 In Kipling's earlier tale the Leopard got his spots from a man's fingertips, which is made up too. **Who acts:** Leopard, Kipling · **What happens:** get, make up, tell · **To what, where:** spots, earlier tale, fingertips · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Leopard, 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:30 # text = In Kipling's earlier tale the Leopard got his spots from a man's fingertips, which is made up too. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 Kipling Kipling PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 earlier early ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 amod _ _ 5 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Leopard leopard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 spots spot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 from from ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 fingertips fingertip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl:relcl _ _ 20 up up ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 too too ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | past | the Leopard | leopard's spots | | Kipling's earlier tale | | from a man's fingertips | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent spot=Theme from fingertip=Source | | 2 | **make up** | present · passive | | a man's fingertips | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot | | 3 | **tell** | | Kipling | | | | | | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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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