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title: What Teshumai sees: Tegumai with his arm broken, a spear in his back… — Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Writte… · tree and pragmatics
description: What Teshumai sees: Tegumai with his arm broken, a spear in his back, a man ready to throw a spear, another throwing a spear from a Cave, and «a whole pack of people», which are «Taffy's beavers really». Who acts: Teshumai, Tegumai, another, whole pack. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How
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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 18

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What Teshumai sees: Tegumai with his arm broken, a spear in his back, a man ready to throw a spear, another throwing a spear from a Cave, and «a whole pack of people», which are «Taffy's beavers really».

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**Who acts:** Teshumai, Tegumai, another, whole pack · **What happens:** see, break, throw, be · **To what, where:** Tegumai, spear, Cave, beavers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Teshumai, Tegumai, another, whole pack), 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:18
# text = What Teshumai sees: Tegumai with his arm broken, a spear in his back, a man ready to throw a spear, another throwing a spear from a Cave, and «a whole pack of people», which are «Taffy's beavers really».
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
2	Teshumai	Teshumai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:appos
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:det
26	throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	pack	pack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	_
40	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
42	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	47	nsubj	_	_
43	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
44	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	47	punct	_	_
45	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	nmod:poss	_	_
46	's	's	PART	POS	_	45	case	_	_
47	beavers	beaver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	acl:relcl	_	_
48	really	really	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
49	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	47	punct	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | Teshumai | Tegumai and a spear in man's back and a whole pack of people |  |  |  | with man's arm | tree rules |
| 2 | **break** | participle |  | Tegumai and a spear in man's back and a whole pack of people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **throw** | to-infinitive | Tegumai and a spear in man's back and a whole pack of people *not said here* | a spear |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=Theme |
| 4 | **throw** | gerund | another | a spear |  | a Cave |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent spear=Theme from cave=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | a whole pack of people | Taffy's beavers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:18`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×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/).

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