--- title: The Head Chief says Taffy has made a great invention which men will… — Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Writte… · tree and pragmatics description: The Head Chief says Taffy has made a great invention which men will one day call writing, though pictures are not always understood. Who acts: Head Chief, Taffy, men. 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» --- [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/6/) [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/) / 6 # Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 3: «a great invention» and the road on Merrow Down, sentence 6 The Head Chief says Taffy has made a great invention which men will one day call writing, though pictures are not always understood. **Who acts:** Head Chief, Taffy, men · **What happens:** say, make, call, not understand · **To what, where:** great invention, pictures · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Head Chief, Taffy, men), 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:6 # text = The Head Chief says Taffy has made a great invention which men will one day call writing, though pictures are not always 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Chief Chief PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 Taffy Taffy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 ccomp _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 invention invention NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 obj _ _ 12 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 13 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 14 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl:unmarked _ _ 16 call call VERB VB Number=Sing 10 acl:relcl _ _ 17 writing writing NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 xcomp _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 though though SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 20 pictures picture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 23 always always ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 understood understand VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Head Chief | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **make** | present · perfect | Taffy | a great invention | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invention=Product | | 3 | **call** | future | men | a great invention | | | day | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Recipient | | 4 | **not** **understand** | present · passive | | pictures | | | | always *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | 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: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): R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories, How the First Letter…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/5/) - next →: [Just So Stories, How the First Letter…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/)