--- title: Teshumai: «It's as plain as the nose on this Stranger-man's face»; t… — Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Writte… · tree and pragmatics description: Teshumai: «It's as plain as the nose on this Stranger-man's face»; this means it's very clear, but she is quite wrong. Who acts: Teshumai, this, wind. 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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 (Teshumai, this, wind), 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:17 # text = Teshumai: «It's as plain as the nose on this Stranger-man's face»; this means it's very clear, but she is quite wrong. # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Teshumai Teshumai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 2 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 4 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 5 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 as as ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 plain plain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 as as ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 13 det _ _ 13 Stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 15 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:appos 18 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 21 nsubj _ _ 21 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:expl 23 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 very very ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 ccomp _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 but but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 quite quite ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Teshumai | | | | | as the nose on this Stranger man's face; plain *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | this | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | wind | | | | | clear *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | Teshumai | | | | | wrong *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:085-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes.lesson:17`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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