--- title: Over lunch Taffy has «a secret surprise» idea. — Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part… · tree and pragmatics description: Over lunch Taffy has «a secret surprise» idea. Who acts: Taffy. 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 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [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/2/) [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/) / 2 # Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 1: a carp-fish's mouth, a tail, an egg and a snake, sentence 2 Over lunch Taffy has «a secret surprise» idea. **Who acts:** Taffy · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** surprise idea, lunch 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), 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:2 # text = Over lunch Taffy has «a secret surprise» idea. # 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 1 Over over ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 lunch lunch NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 3 Taffy Taffy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 secret secret ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 surprise surprise NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obj 9 » » PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 10 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:appos 11 . . 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 | **have** | present | Taffy | surprise idea | | lunch | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=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:087-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth.lesson:2`. **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. **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…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/87-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth/1/) - next →: [Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/87-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/87-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth/)