--- title: In the picture the black-handled spear «looks as if it was sticking… — Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Writte… · tree and pragmatics description: In the picture the black-handled spear «looks as if it was sticking in Daddy's back», because the tooth slipped and the bark was too small. Who acts: black handled spear, spear, tooth, bark. 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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 (black handled spear, spear, tooth, bark), 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:25 # text = In the picture the black-handled spear «looks as if it was sticking in Daddy's back», because the tooth slipped and the bark was too small. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 5 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 7 handled handle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ _ 8 spear spear NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 10 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 as as SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 12 if if SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 sticking stick VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 Daddy Daddy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 18 's 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 » » PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 because because SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 tooth tooth NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 slipped slip VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 bark bark NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 too too ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 conj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **handle** | participle | | | | | | | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **look** *in a quote* | present | the black handled spear | | | | | in the picture | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in picture=Theme | | 3 | **stick** *in a quote* | past · progressive | spear | | | Daddy's back | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in back=Destination | | 4 | **slip** | past | the tooth | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **is** | past | the bark | | | | | small *property* | 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:25`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories, How the First Letter…, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/84-justso-first-letter-1-a-broken-spear/24/) - next →: [Just So Stories, How the First Letter…, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/84-justso-first-letter-1-a-broken-spear/26/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/84-justso-first-letter-1-a-broken-spear/)