--- title: Teshumai reads the picture as a horror: Tegumai full of spears, Taff… — Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Writte… · tree and pragmatics description: Teshumai reads the picture as a horror: Tegumai full of spears, Taffy's hair standing on end in fright, and a pack of people creeping up behind, which are really Taffy's beavers. Who acts: Teshumai, hair, people. 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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, hair, people), 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:6 # text = Teshumai reads the picture as a horror: Tegumai full of spears, Taffy's hair standing on end in fright, and a pack of people creeping up behind, which are really Taffy's beavers. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Teshumai Teshumai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 reads read VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 as as ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 horror horror NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 9 Tegumai Tegumai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 10 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 spears spear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 Taffy Taffy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 's 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 17 standing stand VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 acl _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 fright fright NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 pack pack NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:appos 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 28 creeping creep VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 acl _ _ 29 up up ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 behind behind ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 32 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 37 nsubj _ _ 33 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 34 really really ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 35 Taffy Taffy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nmod:poss _ _ 36 's 's PART POS _ 35 case _ _ 37 beavers beaver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 acl:relcl _ _ 38 . . 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 | **read** | present | Teshumai | the picture | | | | as a horror; Tegumai and a pack of people *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer picture=Stimulus as horror=Attribute | | 2 | **stand** | gerund | Taffy's hair *not said here* | | | | on end | in fright | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on end=Location | | 3 | **creep up** | gerund | people *not said here* | | | | | behind *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | people | Taffy's beavers | | | | | 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:6`. **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, 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. 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