Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 19
Real biology: a big red kangaroo can cover about eight metres (around twenty-five feet) in one bound, so Kipling's number is about right; the tail balances it when hopping and props it like a fifth leg when it moves slowly.
Who acts: big red kangaroo, number, tail · What happens: cover, be, balance, hop, prop, move · To what, where: eight metres, number
This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo» of the books 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 (big red kangaroo, number, tail), 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 biology | amod |
| 2 | biology | biology | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 cover | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 kangaroo | det |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 kangaroo | amod |
| 6 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 kangaroo | amod |
| 7 | kangaroo | kangaroo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cover | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 cover | aux |
| 9 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 biology | acl:relcl |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 eight | advmod |
| 11 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 metres | nummod |
| 12 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cover | obj |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 feet | punct |
| 14 | around | around | ADV | _ | 17 five | advmod |
| 15 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 five | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 twenty | punct |
| 17 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 feet | nummod |
| 18 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 metres | appos |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 feet | punct |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 bound | case |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 bound | nummod |
| 22 | bound | bound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cover | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 balances | punct |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 right | advmod |
| 25 | Kipling | Kipling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 number | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 Kipling | case |
| 27 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 right | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 right | cop |
| 29 | about | about | ADV | _ | 30 right | advmod |
| 30 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 biology | parataxis |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 balances | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 tail | det |
| 33 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 balances | nsubj |
| 34 | balances | balance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 biology | parataxis |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 balances | obj |
| 36 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 37 hopping | advmod |
| 37 | hopping | hop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 balances | advcl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 props | cc |
| 39 | props | prop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 balances | conj |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 props | obj |
| 41 | like | like | ADP | _ | 44 leg | case |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 leg | det |
| 43 | fifth | fifth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 leg | amod |
| 44 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 props | obl |
| 45 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 47 moves | advmod |
| 46 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 moves | nsubj |
| 47 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 props | advcl |
| 48 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 47 moves | advmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 biology | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | can | a big red kangaroo | eight metres | in one bound | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent metre=Destination in bound=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | Kipling's number | about, right property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | balance | present | the tail | number | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hop | gerund | the tail not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | prop | present | the tail not said here | number | like a fifth leg | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 6 | move | present | tail | slowly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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, 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:books:081-justso-old-man-kangaroo.lesson:19.
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 ×3, R7-rel-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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