--- title: Tegumai shows Taffy the big secret: put two sound-signs side by side… — Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part… · tree and pragmatics description: Tegumai shows Taffy the big secret: put two sound-signs side by side and you get a word. Who acts: Tegumai, you. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 2: yo, so, sho, shi, and shu-ya, the sky-water» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its dependency --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/88-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water/0/) [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/88-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water/) / 0 # Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 2: yo, so, sho, shi, and shu-ya, the sky-water, sentence 0 Tegumai shows Taffy the big secret: put two sound-signs side by side and you get a word. **Who acts:** Tegumai, you · **What happens:** show, put, get · **To what, where:** big secret, Taffy, two sound signs, word This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 2: yo, so, sho, shi, and shu-ya, the sky-water» 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 (Tegumai, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:088-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water.lesson:0 # text = Tegumai shows Taffy the big secret: put two sound-signs side by side and you get a word. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 088-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water.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 2 nsubj _ _ 2 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 Taffy Taffy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 secret secret NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 8 put put VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 9 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 10 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ _ 12 signs sign NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 13 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 advmod _ _ 14 by by ADP IN _ 13 fixed _ _ 15 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 fixed _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 . . 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 | **show** | present | Tegumai | the big secret | Taffy | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent taffy=Recipient secret=Topic | | 2 | **put** | infinitive | | two sound signs | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent sign=Goal | | 3 | **get** | present | you | a word | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | 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:088-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water.lesson:0`. **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): no change. **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…, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/87-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth/24/) - next →: [Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/88-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/88-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water/)