--- title: «'Satiable curtiosity» is baby-talk for «insatiable curiosity», want… — Kipling's word games: «Best Beloved», the 'Stute… · tree and pragmatics description: «'Satiable curtiosity» is baby-talk for «insatiable curiosity», wanting to know things so much you are never satisfied; «curtiosity» is a made-up mistake, and Kipling uses it on purpose to sound like a small child. Who acts: Satiable curtiosity, baby talk, you, curtiosity ». 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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 (Satiable curtiosity, baby talk, you, curtiosity »), 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:9 # text = «'Satiable curtiosity» is baby-talk for «insatiable curiosity», wanting to know things so much you are never satisfied; «curtiosity» is a made-up mistake, and Kipling uses it on purpose to sound like a small child. # 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 2 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 3 Satiable satiable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 curtiosity curtiosity NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 5 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 7 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ _ 9 talk talk NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 « « PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 12 insatiable insatiable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:amod 13 curiosity curiosity NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 » » NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 wanting want VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 acl _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 19 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 much much ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:advmod 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 satisfied satisfied ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 ccomp _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 27 « « PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct 28 curtiosity curtiosity NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 » » NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 32 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 amod _ _ 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ _ 34 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:compound 35 mistake mistake NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=35:cc 38 Kipling Kipling PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=39:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 39 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 conj _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ _ 41 on on ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 43 to to PART TO _ 44 mark _ _ 44 sound sound VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 advcl _ _ 45 like like ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Satiable curtiosity | baby talk | | | | for curiosity » | tree rules | | 2 | **want** | gerund | baby talk *not said here* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 3 | **know** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | baby talk *not said here* | things | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | | 4 | **not** **is** | present | you | | | | | satisfied *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **make** | participle | | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 6 | **is a** | present | curtiosity » | a made mistake | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **use** | present | Kipling | curtiosity | | purpose | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 8 | **sound** | to-infinitive | Kipling *not said here* | | | | | like a small child | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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:9`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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