--- title: At present it is only pictures, and ... pictures are not always prop… — Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Writte… · tree and pragmatics description: At present it is only pictures, and ... pictures are not always properly understood.» Who acts: ». 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 dependency tr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/19/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [Just So Stories, How the First Letter…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/) / 19 # Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 3: «a great invention» and the road on Merrow Down, sentence 19 At present it is only pictures, and ... pictures are not always properly understood.» **Who acts:** » · **What happens:** be, not understand · **To what, where:** pictures 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 (»), 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:19 # text = At present it is only pictures, and ... pictures are not always properly understood.» # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 At at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 2 present present ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:amod 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 only only ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 pictures picture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 ... ... PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 pictures picture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=6:conj 11 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 13 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 15 advmod _ _ 14 properly properly ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 understood understand VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ 17 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | » | | | pictures | | present *obl* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **understand** | present · passive | | | | | | always, properly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V» | 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:086-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention.lesson:19`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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. 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