--- title: Taffy says Mummy is «the most beautifullest Mummy there ever was», a… — Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Writte… · tree and pragmatics description: Taffy says Mummy is «the most beautifullest Mummy there ever was», and draws the spear outside the Cave though it is really inside, «in case you forget». Who acts: Taffy, Mummy, picture, you. 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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 (Taffy, Mummy, picture, you), 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:14 # text = Taffy says Mummy is «the most beautifullest Mummy there ever was», and draws the spear outside the Cave though it is really inside, «in case you forget». # 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): R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Taffy Taffy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 Mummy Mummy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 8 advmod _ _ 8 beautifullest beautifull ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 9 amod _ _ 9 Mummy mummy NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 ccomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 10 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 12 expl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:PronType=Dem 11 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 12 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advmod 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:cop 13 » » PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 draws draw VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 spear spear NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 outside outside ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Cave cave NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nmod 22 though though SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 really really ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 inside inside ADV RB _ 16 advcl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 « « PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 29 in in SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 30 case case NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 fixed _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 forget forget VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 33 » » PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Taffy | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Mummy | the beautifullest Mummy | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **draw** | present | Taffy *not said here* | the spear | | | | outside the Cave | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | picture | | | | | inside *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **forget** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | | 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:085-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes.lesson:14`. **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 ×4, 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. 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