--- title: Alliteration means several words close together starting with the sa… — Kipling's word games: «Best Beloved», the 'Stute… · tree and pragmatics description: Alliteration means several words close together starting with the same sound, as in «great grey-green, greasy»; it makes a phrase easy to remember and fun to say. Who acts: Alliteration, phrase. 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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 (Alliteration, phrase), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:042-kipling-s-word-games-best-beloved-stute-fish-humph-and-the-great-grey-green-greasy-limpopo.lesson:10 # text = Alliteration means several words close together starting with the same sound, as in «great grey-green, greasy»; it makes a phrase easy to remember and fun to say. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 042-kipling-s-word-games-best-beloved-stute-fish-humph-and-the-great-grey-green-greasy-limpopo.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Alliteration alliteration NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nsubj 5 close close VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:ccomp 6 together together ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 starting start VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 13 as as SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 13 fixed _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:case 15 « « PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 16 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 17 grey grey NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ _ 19 green green NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 21 greasy greasy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 22 » » PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 phrase phrase NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 easy easy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 remember remember VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=28:cc 32 fun fun ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 conj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Alliteration | several words | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | | 2 | **close** | present | | great grey green | | | | together *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **start** | gerund | | | | | | with the same sound | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with sound=Subeventuality | | 4 | **make** | present | Alliteration | a phrase | | | | easy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material phrase=Product | | 5 | **remember** | to-infinitive | a phrase *not said here* | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | a phrase *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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:language:042-kipling-s-word-games-best-beloved-stute-fish-humph-and-the-great-grey-green-greasy-limpopo.lesson:10`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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. 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