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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 (Kipling, way), 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:15 # text = Kipling uses capital letters to make things grand and important, as with «the Djinn in charge of All Deserts», the way a sign uses capitals for a title. # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Kipling Kipling PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 capital capital NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 7 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 grand grand ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc 10 important important ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 as as ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 « « ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Djinn djinn NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 advcl _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 charge charge NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 All all DET DT PronType=Tot 21 det _ _ 21 Deserts desert PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 22 » » PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 29 capitals capital NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 title title NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:nmod 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present | Kipling | capital letters | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient | | 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | Kipling *not said here* | things | | | | grand *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thing=Product | | 3 | **use** | present | the way | capitals | | | | for a title | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent capital=Theme for title=Eventuality | | 4 | **charge** *in a quote* | | | all Deserts | | | | | nom charge «act transitive»: of=patient | 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:15`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. 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