--- title: Taffy «sat mousy-quiet for ten whole minutes» while her Daddy scratc… — Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part… · tree and pragmatics description: Taffy «sat mousy-quiet for ten whole minutes» while her Daddy scratched on birch-bark with a shark's tooth. Who acts: Taffy, Daddy. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 1: a carp-fish's mouth, a tail, an egg and a snake» of the books course of Mova's primary sch --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/87-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth/12/) [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 Alphabet Was…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/87-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth/) / 12 # Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 1: a carp-fish's mouth, a tail, an egg and a snake, sentence 12 Taffy «sat mousy-quiet for ten whole minutes» while her Daddy scratched on birch-bark with a shark's tooth. **Who acts:** Taffy, Daddy · **What happens:** sit, scratch · **To what, where:** birch bark This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 1: a carp-fish's mouth, a tail, an egg and a snake» 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 (Taffy, Daddy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:087-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth.lesson:12 # text = Taffy «sat mousy-quiet for ten whole minutes» while her Daddy scratched on birch-bark with a shark's tooth. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 087-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Taffy Taffy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 « « PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 3 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 mousy mousy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ _ 6 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 9 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 11 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 12 while while SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 Daddy Daddy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 15 scratched scratch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 birch birch NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ _ 19 bark bark NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:det 22 shark shark NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 's 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 tooth tooth NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod 25 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** *in a quote* | past | Taffy | | | | minute | quiet *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **scratch** | past | Taffy's Daddy | | | birch bark | | with a shark's tooth | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with tooth=Instrument | 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:087-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth.lesson:12`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/87-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth/11/) - next →: [Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/87-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/87-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth/)