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title: Tegumai: «I believe we've found out the big secret of the world.» Th… — Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Tegumai: «I believe we've found out the big secret of the world.» The book has small pictures of each sign, numbered (1.), (2.) and so on. Who acts: Taffy, we, book. 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 
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# Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 1: a carp-fish's mouth, a tail, an egg and a snake, sentence 19

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Tegumai: «I believe we've found out the big secret of the world.» The book has small pictures of each sign, numbered (1.), (2.) and so on.

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**Who acts:** Taffy, we, book · **What happens:** believe, find out, have, number · **To what, where:** big secret, small pictures · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, we, book), 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:19
# text = Tegumai: «I believe we've found out the big secret of the world.» The book has small pictures of each sign, numbered (1.), (2.) and so on.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	mark	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
6	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	ccomp	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	mark	_	_
18	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
21	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	numbered	number	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl:relcl	_	_
28	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	29	punct	_	_
29	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
31	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	29	punct	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
33	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	34	punct	_	_
34	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	obj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	_
36	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	34	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	so	so	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	on	on	ADV	RB	_	20	conj	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** *in a quote* | present | Taffy |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **find out** *in a quote* | present · perfect | we | the big secret of the world |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Topic |
| 3 | **have** | present | the book | small pictures of each sign |  |  |  | 1 *obl* | tree rules |
| 4 | **number** | participle |  | small pictures of each sign *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: 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:087-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth.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): R6-punct-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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