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title: Real life: a spindle whorl is a small weight of clay or stone on a s… — Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real life: a spindle whorl is a small weight of clay or stone on a stick, used for spinning thread for thousands of years; the spinning-wheel, which Kipling also mentions, was invented much later, about a thousand years ago. Who acts: spindle whorl, Kipling. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories
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# Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: the bargain, the Bat and the Baby, sentence 34

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Real life: a spindle whorl is a small weight of clay or stone on a stick, used for spinning thread for thousands of years; the spinning-wheel, which Kipling also mentions, was invented much later, about a thousand years ago.

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**Who acts:** spindle whorl, Kipling · **What happens:** be, use, spin, mention, invent · **To what, where:** small weight, stick, thread, spinning wheel

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: the bargain, the Bat and the Baby» 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 (spindle whorl, Kipling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:094-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby.lesson:34
# text = Real life: a spindle whorl is a small weight of clay or stone on a stick, used for spinning thread for thousands of years; the spinning-wheel, which Kipling also mentions, was invented much later, about a thousand years ago.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 094-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby.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): R5-strong ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	spindle	spindle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	whorl	whorl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:acl
20	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	spinning	spin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
22	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:obl
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	spinning	spinning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:compound|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	_
31	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	obj	_	_
34	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
35	also	also	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	mentions	mention	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	invented	invent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	parataxis	_	_
40	much	much	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	39	advmod	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
43	about	about	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=46:det
45	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	46	nummod	_	_
46	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obl:unmarked	_	_
47	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a spindle whorl | a small weight |  | a stick |  | of clay or stone | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | participle |  | a small weight *not said here* |  |  |  | for thousands of years | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **spin** | gerund |  | thread |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent thread=Theme |
| 4 | **mention** *speech: other* | present | Kipling | the spinning wheel |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent which=Topic |
| 5 | **invent** | past · passive |  | the spinning wheel |  |  |  | ago, late *property* | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |

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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:094-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby.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): R5-strong ×4, 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/).

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