--- title: Kipling's Stone Age names are long descriptions joined by hyphens: T… — Kipling's word games: «Best Beloved», the 'Stute… · tree and pragmatics description: Kipling's Stone Age names are long descriptions joined by hyphens: Taffimai Metallumai means «Small-person-without-any-manners-who-ought-to-be-spanked», so he shortens it to Taffy. Who acts: Age names, Taffimai, Kipling. 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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 (Age names, Taffimai, Kipling), 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:14 # text = Kipling's Stone Age names are long descriptions joined by hyphens: Taffimai Metallumai means «Small-person-without-any-manners-who-ought-to-be-spanked», so he shortens it to Taffy. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×5, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Kipling Kipling PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 Stone Stone PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:compound 4 Age age PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 names name NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 descriptions description NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 9 joined join VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 10 by by ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 hyphens hyphen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 13 Taffimai Taffimai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 Metallumai Metallumai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 flat _ _ 15 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:acl:relcl 16 « « PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 17 Small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ _ 19 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:obl 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ _ 21 without without ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ _ 23 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 25 det _ _ 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ _ 25 manners manners NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 19 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:conj 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 40 punct _ _ 27 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:nsubj 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ _ 29 ought ought AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ _ 33 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 35 aux:pass _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:cop 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ _ 35 spanked spank VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ _ 36 » » PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 38 so so ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 shortens shorten VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 to to ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 Taffy Taffy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 | Kipling's Age names | long descriptions | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **join** | participle | | long descriptions *not said here* | | | | by hyphens | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **mean** | present | Taffimai | Small person | | | | without any manners | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Topic | | 4 | **spank** *in a quote* | ought · passive | Taffimai *not said here* | Small person *not said here* | | | | | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP» | | 5 | **shorten** | present | Taffimai | person | Taffy | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 6 | **name** | | Kipling | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: 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:language:042-kipling-s-word-games-best-beloved-stute-fish-humph-and-the-great-grey-green-greasy-limpopo.lesson:14`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×5, 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. 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