--- title: Kipling's tale, like the Rhinoceros's folds and the Kangaroo's legs,… — Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos… · tree and pragmatics description: Kipling's tale, like the Rhinoceros's folds and the Kangaroo's legs, is a made-up «just so» reason. Who acts: tale, Kipling. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 2: swimming lessons, curling lessons, and a new name» of the books course of Mova's primary sc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/83-justso-armadillos-2-the-first-armadillo/34/) [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/83-justso-armadillos-2-the-first-armadillo/) / 34 # Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 2: swimming lessons, curling lessons, and a new name, sentence 34 Kipling's tale, like the Rhinoceros's folds and the Kangaroo's legs, is a made-up «just so» reason. **Who acts:** tale, Kipling · **What happens:** make up, be, tell · **To what, where:** made » reason · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 2: swimming lessons, curling lessons, and a new name» 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 (tale, Kipling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:083-justso-armadillos-2-the-first-armadillo.lesson:34 # text = Kipling's tale, like the Rhinoceros's folds and the Kangaroo's legs, is a made-up «just so» reason. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 083-justso-armadillos-2-the-first-armadillo.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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Kipling Kipling PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 5 like like ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Rhinoceros Rhinoceros PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 folds fold NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 appos _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Kangaroo Kangaroo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 18 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 amod _ _ 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ _ 20 up up ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=18:compound 21 « « PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 just just ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:advmod 23 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 » » ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make up** | participle | | | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | Kipling's tale | a made » reason | | | | | tree rules | | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:083-justso-armadillos-2-the-first-armadillo.lesson:34`. **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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×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/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories, The Beginning of the…, 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/83-justso-armadillos-2-the-first-armadillo/33/) - next →: [Just So Stories, How the First Letter…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/84-justso-first-letter-1-a-broken-spear/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/83-justso-armadillos-2-the-first-armadillo/)