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title: Taffy draws «very hard and rather scratchily» and puts the spear int… — Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Writte… · tree and pragmatics
description: Taffy draws «very hard and rather scratchily» and puts the spear into the Stranger-man's hand in the picture «just to remind you that you're to bring it». Who acts: Taffy. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2: the picture goes wrong and the whole Tribe 
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# Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2: the picture goes wrong and the whole Tribe comes, sentence 12

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Taffy draws «very hard and rather scratchily» and puts the spear into the Stranger-man's hand in the picture «just to remind you that you're to bring it».

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**Who acts:** Taffy · **What happens:** draw, put, remind, bring · **To what, where:** spear, hand, you, picture

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2: the picture goes wrong and the whole Tribe comes» 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 (Taffy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:085-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes.lesson:12
# text = Taffy draws «very hard and rather scratchily» and puts the spear into the Stranger-man's hand in the picture «just to remind you that you're to bring it».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 085-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	draws	draw	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	scratchily	scratchily	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advmod
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc
11	puts	put	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	Stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
24	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	_
25	just	just	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	remind	remind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:ccomp
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	iobj	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | present | Taffy |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **put** | present | Taffy *not said here* | the spear |  | the Stranger man's hand |  | in the picture | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent spear=Theme in picture=Destination |
| 3 | **remind** *speech: other* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Taffy *not said here* |  | you |  |  |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 4 | **bring** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Taffy *not said here* | picture |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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.

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**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:085-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes.lesson:12`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-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/).

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