--- title: Real life: our letter O began as a picture of an eye, a round shape,… — Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part… · tree and pragmatics description: Real life: our letter O began as a picture of an eye, a round shape, not an egg; Kipling's egg is not so far off. Who acts: letter, egg, our. 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 p --- [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/23/) [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/) / 23 # Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 1: a carp-fish's mouth, a tail, an egg and a snake, sentence 23 Real life: our letter O began as a picture of an eye, a round shape, not an egg; Kipling's egg is not so far off. **Who acts:** letter, egg, our · **What happens:** begin, not be, letter 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 (letter, egg, our), 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:23 # text = Real life: our letter O began as a picture of an eye, a round shape, not an egg; Kipling's egg is not so far off. # 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 4 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 6 O o ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 as as ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 round round ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 20 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 Kipling Kipling PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 24 's 's PART POS _ 23 case _ _ 25 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 28 so so ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ _ 30 off off ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | past | our letter and a egg *not said here* | | | | | as a picture of a eye | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **not** **is** | present | Kipling's egg | | | | | far, off *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **letter** | | our | | | | | | nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:23`. **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, 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 Alphabet Was…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/87-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth/21/) - next →: [Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was…, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/87-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth/24/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/87-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth/)