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title: Real life: picture signs are still misread today. — Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Writte… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real life: picture signs are still misread today. 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 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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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 23

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Real life: picture signs are still misread today.

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**What happens:** misread · **To what, where:** picture signs

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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: 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:23
# text = Real life: picture signs are still misread today.
# 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): no change
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
4	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
7	still	still	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	misread	misread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
9	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	.	.	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 | **misread** | present · passive |  | picture signs |  |  | still; today |  | 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:23`.

**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): no change. **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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