Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo, sentence 5
The Kangaroo was "a Different Animal with four short legs.
Who acts: Kangaroo · What happens: be · To what, where: Different Animal
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 (Kangaroo), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Kangaroo | det |
| 2 | Kangaroo | Kangaroo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Animal | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Animal | cop |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Animal | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Animal | det |
| 6 | Different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Animal | amod |
| 7 | Animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 legs | case |
| 9 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 legs | nummod |
| 10 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 legs | amod |
| 11 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Animal | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Animal | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | the Kangaroo | a Different Animal | with four short legs | 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, 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:5.
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): 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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