--- title: Kipling's last joke, that little girls do not like learning to read… — Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Writte… · tree and pragmatics description: Kipling's last joke, that little girls do not like learning to read and write, is an old idea that is wrong: girls and boys learn to read and write equally well, and many great writers are women. Who acts: little girls, last joke, old idea, girls. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little girls, last joke, old idea, girls), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:086-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention.lesson:23 # text = Kipling's last joke, that little girls do not like learning to read and write, is an old idea that is wrong: girls and boys learn to read and write equally well, and many great writers are women. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 086-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention.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 ×1 1 Kipling Kipling PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 7 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 girls girl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 9 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl _ _ 12 learning learn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 xcomp _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 read read VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 write write VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 19 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 22 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 acl:relcl _ _ 25 : : PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 26 girls girl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 29 learn learn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 parataxis _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 read read VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 write write VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ _ 34 equally equally ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 35 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 34 fixed _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 38 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 39 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 writers writer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nsubj _ _ 41 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 42 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **like** | present · do-support | little girls | Kipling's last joke *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **learn** *not said to happen* | gerund | little girls *not said here* | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **read** | to-infinitive | little girls *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **write** | infinitive | little girls *not said here* | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | present | Kipling's last joke | a old idea and women | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | present | a old idea and women | | | | | wrong *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **learn** | present | girls and boys | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **read** | to-infinitive | girls and boys *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **write** | infinitive | girls and boys *not said here* | | | | | equally *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **is a** | present | many great writers | women | | | | | tree rules | | 11 | **joke** | | Kipling | | | | | | nom joke «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:086-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention.lesson:23`. **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): R8-pos-agree ×1. **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, How the First Letter…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/22/) - next →: [Just So Stories, How the First Letter…, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/25/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/)