--- title: Some words in the book are British and some American: the sailor's «… — Kipling's word games: «Best Beloved», the 'Stute… · tree and pragmatics description: Some words in the book are British and some American: the sailor's «suspenders» are what British people call «braces», which hold trousers up. Who acts: words, British people, suspenders, braces. 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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 (words, British people, suspenders, braces), 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:18 # text = Some words in the book are British and some American: the sailor's «suspenders» are what British people call «braces», which hold trousers up. # 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 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 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 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc 9 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 10 det _ _ 10 American American ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 sailor sailor NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ _ 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 « « PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 16 suspenders suspender NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 17 » » PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 19 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 22 obj _ _ 20 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 23 « « PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 24 braces brace NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 parataxis _ _ 25 » » PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 27 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 hold hold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 29 trousers trousers NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 30 up up ADV RB _ 28 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:advmod 31 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | some words in the book | | | | | british *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | some words in the book *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **call** | present | British people | braces | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the sailor's suspenders | braces | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **hold up** | present | braces | trousers | | | | | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot trousers=Theme | 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:18`. **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. **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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