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title: I drawded it three times to make sure.» «Drawded» is her baby way of… — Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Writte… · tree and pragmatics
description: I drawded it three times to make sure.» «Drawded» is her baby way of saying drew. Who acts: I, », baby way. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 3: «a great invention» and the road on Merrow Down» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its depe
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# Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 3: «a great invention» and the road on Merrow Down, sentence 15

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I drawded it three times to make sure.» «Drawded» is her baby way of saying drew.

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**Who acts:** I, », baby way · **What happens:** drawd, make, be, say, draw · **To what, where:** home, baby way · **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 3: «a great invention» and the road on Merrow Down» 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 (I, », baby way), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:086-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention.lesson:15
# text = I drawded it three times to make sure.» «Drawded» is her baby way of saying drew.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 086-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	drawded	drawd	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
8	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
10	»	»	X	GW	_	17	nsubj	_	_
11	«	«	X	GW	_	10	flat	_	_
12	Drawded	drawd	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	»	»	X	NN	_	10	flat	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
17	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
18	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
20	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **drawd** | past | I | home |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **drawd** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | » | spear's baby way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | gerund | spear's baby way *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **draw** *in a quote* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:086-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention.lesson:15`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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