--- title: A carp-tail and a round egg make «yo», bad swamp-water; scratched be… — Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part… · tree and pragmatics description: A carp-tail and a round egg make «yo», bad swamp-water; scratched beside a pool, it would warn Taffy «don't drink this» even if Daddy were miles away hunting. Who acts: carp tail, yo, Daddy. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 2: yo, so, sho, shi, and shu-ya, t --- [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/1/) [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/) / 1 # Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 2: yo, so, sho, shi, and shu-ya, the sky-water, sentence 1 A carp-tail and a round egg make «yo», bad swamp-water; scratched beside a pool, it would warn Taffy «don't drink this» even if Daddy were miles away hunting. **Who acts:** carp tail, yo, Daddy · **What happens:** make, scratch, warn, not drink, be, hunt · **To what, where:** yo, pool, Taffy, this, miles · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (carp tail, yo, Daddy), 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:1 # text = A carp-tail and a round egg make «yo», bad swamp-water; scratched beside a pool, it would warn Taffy «don't drink this» even if Daddy were miles away hunting. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 carp carp NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ _ 4 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 round round ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 9 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 « « PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 11 yo yo NOUN NN _ 9 obj _ _ 12 » » PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 15 swamp swamp NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ _ 17 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 19 scratched scratch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl:relcl _ _ 20 beside beside ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 pool pool NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 warn warn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 27 Taffy Taffy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 28 « « PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 29 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:xcomp 32 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 31 obj _ _ 33 » » PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 34 even even ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 35 if if SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 36 Daddy Daddy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=38:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 37 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 38 miles mile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 advcl _ _ 39 away away ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 40 hunting hunt VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 38 advcl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | infinitive | a carp tail and a round egg | yo bad swamp water | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset yo=Product | | 2 | **scratch** | participle | | yo bad swamp water *not said here* | | a pool | | | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent beside pool=Location | | 3 | **warn** *speech: warn* | would | yo | | Taffy | | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent taffy=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **not** **drink** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | | this | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Patient | | 5 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Daddy | miles | | | | away *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **hunt** | gerund | Daddy *not said here* | | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=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:088-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water.lesson:1`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2, 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…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/88-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water/0/) - next →: [Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/88-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/88-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water/)