--- title: Old sayings in the book: «a leopard cannot change its spots» (people… — Kipling's word games: «Best Beloved», the 'Stute… · tree and pragmatics description: Old sayings in the book: «a leopard cannot change its spots» (people do not change what they are like), «crocodile tears» (pretend sadness), «a month of Sundays» (a very long time) and «the long and the short of it» (the whole thing in a few words). Who acts: leopard, people. 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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 (leopard, people), 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:16 # text = Old sayings in the book: «a leopard cannot change its spots» (people do not change what they are like), «crocodile tears» (pretend sadness), «a month of Sundays» (a very long time) and «the long and the short of it» (the whole thing in a few words). # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 sayings saying NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 7 « « PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 leopard leopard NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 10 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 13 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 spots spot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 16 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 17 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 18 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj 21 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 20 obj _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 like like ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 discourse _ _ 25 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 « « PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ _ 28 crocodile crocodile NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:obj 30 » » PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct 31 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 33 punct _ _ 32 pretend pretend ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 sadness sadness NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 appos _ _ 34 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 33 punct _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 « « PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 parataxis _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 Sundays Sunday PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 38 nmod _ _ 41 » » PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ _ 42 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 46 punct _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 44 very very ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 45 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 parataxis _ _ 47 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 46 punct _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 49 « « PUNCT `` _ 51 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 54 conj _ _ 52 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 parataxis _ _ 55 of of ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 56 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 54 nmod _ _ 57 » » PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 58 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 61 punct _ _ 59 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 61 det _ _ 60 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 61 amod _ _ 61 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 parataxis _ _ 62 in in ADP IN _ 65 case _ _ 63 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 65 det _ _ 64 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 65 amod _ _ 65 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 61 nmod _ _ 66 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 61 punct _ _ 67 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **change** *in a quote* | can | a leopard | leopard's spots | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **change** | present · do-support | people | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | people | | | | | like *property* | tree rules | 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:16`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×4, 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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