--- title: Tegumai's eyes shine: he thinks his daughter has found the biggest s… — Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part… · tree and pragmatics description: Tegumai's eyes shine: he thinks his daughter has found the biggest secret of the world, better even than shark's teeth instead of flints. Who acts: eyes, Daddy, daughter. 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 --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 1: a carp-fish's mouth, a tail, an egg and a snake, sentence 8 Tegumai's eyes shine: he thinks his daughter has found the biggest secret of the world, better even than shark's teeth instead of flints. **Who acts:** eyes, Daddy, daughter · **What happens:** shine, think, find · **To what, where:** biggest secret · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (eyes, Daddy, daughter), 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:8 # text = Tegumai's eyes shine: he thinks his daughter has found the biggest secret of the world, better even than shark's teeth instead of flints. # 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): no change 1 Tegumai Tegumai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 shine shine VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 thinks think VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 ccomp _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 14 amod _ _ 14 secret secret NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 24 advmod _ _ 20 even even ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 21 than than ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 shark shark NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 's 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 25 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 27 case _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 25 fixed _ _ 27 flints flint NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 28 . . 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 | **shine** | present | Tegumai's eyes | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Daddy | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **find** | present · perfect | Daddy's daughter | the biggest secret of the world | | | | than shark's teeth instead flints | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Topic | 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. 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