The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, leopard, elephant, kangaroo, armadillo and crab, sentence 6

Scientists even borrowed Kipling's title: they call a neat explanation that nobody has tested «a just-so story».

Who acts: Scientists, nobody, Kipling · What happens: borrow, call, test, title · To what, where: title, neat explanation · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, leopard, elephant, kangaroo, armadillo and crab» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scientists, nobody, Kipling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 borrowed	nsubj
2	even	even	ADV	_	3 borrowed	advmod
3	borrowed	borrow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 title	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Kipling	case
6	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 borrowed	obj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 call	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 call	nsubj
9	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 borrowed	parataxis
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 explanation	det
11	neat	neat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 explanation	amod
12	explanation	explanation	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 call	obj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 tested	obj
14	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 tested	nsubj
15	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 tested	aux
16	tested	test	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 explanation	acl:relcl
17	«	«	PUNCT	_	22 story	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 story	det
19	just	just	ADV	_	21 so	advmod
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 just	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 story	advmod
22	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 explanation	appos
23	»	»	PUNCT	_	22 story	punct
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 borrowed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	borrow	past	Scientists	Kipling's title	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent title=Theme
2	call	present	Scientists = scientist	a neat explanation	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent explanation=Recipient
3	test	present · perfect	nobody	a neat explanation	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
4	title		Kipling		nom title «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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, 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:biology:404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab.lesson:6.

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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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