--- title: An onomatopoeia is a word that sounds like the noise it names: the C… — Kipling's word games: «Best Beloved», the 'Stute… · tree and pragmatics description: An onomatopoeia is a word that sounds like the noise it names: the Cat's milk-pot cracks «ffft», and «Humph!» sounds like a grumpy snort. Who acts: onomatopoeia, word, ». 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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 (onomatopoeia, word, »), 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:12 # text = An onomatopoeia is a word that sounds like the noise it names: the Cat's milk-pot cracks «ffft», and «Humph!» sounds like a grumpy snort. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 onomatopoeia onomatopoeia NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 like like SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 noise noise NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nsubj 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 names name VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advcl 13 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 Cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod:poss _ _ 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ _ 19 pot pot NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 cracks crack NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 21 « « PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 22 ffft ffft NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 » » NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 « « PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 27 Humph Humph PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 flat _ _ 28 ! ! PUNCT . _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct 29 » » PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 31 like like ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 grumpy grumpy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 snort snort NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a onomatopoeia | a word | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **sound** | present | a word | the noise | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **name** | present | onomatopoeia | the Cat's pot cracks and ffft » | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crack=Theme | | 4 | **sound** | present | » | | | | | like a grumpy snort | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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:12`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3. **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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