--- title: Real life: the twenty-six letters of the English alphabet are true,… — Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Writte… · tree and pragmatics description: Real life: the twenty-six letters of the English alphabet are true, but they came thousands of years after the Stone Age; the Head Chief could not really have known about them. Who acts: Real life, letters, Head Chief. 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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 (Real life, letters, Head Chief), 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:25 # text = Real life: the twenty-six letters of the English alphabet are true, but they came thousands of years after the Stone Age; the Head Chief could not really have known about them. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 5 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 compound _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 7 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 English English ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 alphabet alphabet NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:parataxis 19 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 22 after after ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 Stone Stone PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 Age age PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 Head Head PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 29 Chief Chief PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=34:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 30 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 32 really really ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 33 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 34 aux _ _ 34 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 conj _ _ 35 about about ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Real life | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **come** | past | letters *= letter* | thousands of years | | | after the Stone Age | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thousand=Theme | | 3 | **not** **know** | could · perfect | the Head Chief | | | | | about letters *= letter* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about they=Stimulus | | 4 | **letter** | | | the English alphabet | | | | | nom letter «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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:25`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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