--- title: A clipped word is a long word with a part cut off: «'Stute» comes fr… — Kipling's word games: «Best Beloved», the 'Stute… · tree and pragmatics description: A clipped word is a long word with a part cut off: «'Stute» comes from «astute» (clever), «'scruciating» from «excruciating»; the apostrophe shows where letters are missing, just as in «don't» and «it's». Who acts: clipped word, Stute, apostrophe, letters. 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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 (clipped word, Stute, apostrophe, letters), 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:7 # text = A clipped word is a long word with a part cut off: «'Stute» comes from «astute» (clever), «'scruciating» from «excruciating»; the apostrophe shows where letters are missing, just as in «don't» and «it's». # 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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 clipped clip VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 amod _ _ 3 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl _ _ 12 off off ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 14 « « PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 15 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 16 Stute Stute PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 » » PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 18 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 19 from from ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 « « PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 astute astute ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 » » NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 24 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:amod 25 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 « « PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ _ 28 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ _ 29 scruciating scruciat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 conj _ _ 30 » » PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 31 from from ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 « « PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 33 excruciating excruciate VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:advcl 34 » » NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 35 ; ; PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 apostrophe apostrophe NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 39 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 42 advmod _ _ 40 letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nsubj _ _ 41 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 42 missing missing ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 xcomp _ _ 43 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 44 just just ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 45 as as ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ _ 46 in in ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 « « PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 obl _ _ 48 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 50 aux _ _ 49 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 48 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=50:advmod 50 » » VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 52 « « VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 50 conj _ _ 53 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 54 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=55:nsubj 54 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=55:cop 55 » » PROPN NNP Number=Sing 52 obj _ _ 56 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **clip** | participle | | | | | | | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **is a** | present | a clipped word | a long word | | | | with a part | tree rules | | 3 | **cut off** | participle | | a part *not said here* | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **come** | present | Stute | | | astute » | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from »=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **scruciat** *in a quote* | gerund | Stute *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **excruciate** *in a quote* | gerund | | » | | « | | | tree rules | | 7 | **show** | present | the apostrophe | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **is** | present | letters | | | | | missing *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **»** | present · do-support | Stute *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **«** | infinitive | Stute *not said here* | » | | | | | 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:7`. **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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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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