--- title: The Stranger-man believes his shark's tooth is magic and that anyone… — Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Writte… · tree and pragmatics description: The Stranger-man believes his shark's tooth is magic and that anyone who touches it without leave will «swell up or burst»; when Taffy does not, he decides she is a very wonderful child. Who acts: Stranger man, tooth, anyone, Taffy. 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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 (Stranger man, tooth, anyone, Taffy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:084-justso-first-letter-1-a-broken-spear.lesson:21 # text = The Stranger-man believes his shark's tooth is magic and that anyone who touches it without leave will «swell up or burst»; when Taffy does not, he decides she is a very wonderful child. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 084-justso-first-letter-1-a-broken-spear.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 ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 Stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ _ 4 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 believes believe VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 shark shark NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 tooth tooth NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 magic magic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 ccomp _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 that that SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:mark 14 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 22 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nsubj 15 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 touches touch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 without without ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 leave leave NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:obl 20 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 « « PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 22 swell swell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 23 up up ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 burst burst VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 26 » » PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 30 advmod _ _ 29 Taffy Taffy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 decides decide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 35 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 38 very very ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 wonderful wonderful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 ccomp _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **believe** | present | the Stranger man | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **is** | present | man's shark's tooth | | | | | magic *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **touch** | present | | tooth | | | | without leave | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme | | 4 | **swell up** *in a quote* | future | anyone | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **burst** *in a quote* | infinitive | anyone *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **not** **do** | present | Taffy | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **decide** | present | Taffy | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **is a** | present | animal | a wonderful child | | | | | 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:books:084-justso-first-letter-1-a-broken-spear.lesson:21`. **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. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories, How the First Letter…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/84-justso-first-letter-1-a-broken-spear/18/) - next →: [Just So Stories, How the First Letter…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/84-justso-first-letter-1-a-broken-spear/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/84-justso-first-letter-1-a-broken-spear/)