--- title: Tegumai first thinks of «a spotty snake that hisses sh-sh», but Taff… — Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part… · tree and pragmatics description: Tegumai first thinks of «a spotty snake that hisses sh-sh», but Taffy fears the spots could be left out in a hurry, so for sh they put a picture of the drying-poles themselves «just after the hissy-snake», «to make quite sure». Who acts: Tegumai, spotty snake, Taffy, spots. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tegumai, spotty snake, Taffy, spots), 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:18 # text = Tegumai first thinks of «a spotty snake that hisses sh-sh», but Taffy fears the spots could be left out in a hurry, so for sh they put a picture of the drying-poles themselves «just after the hissy-snake», «to make quite sure». # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 Tegumai Tegumai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 first first ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 thinks think VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 spotty spotty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 hisses hiss VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 sh sh NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ _ 13 sh sh NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obj 14 » » PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 Taffy Taffy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 fears fear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 spots spot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obj 21 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:acl:relcl 24 out out ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 hurry hurry NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct 29 so so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 sh sh NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 32 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=18:conj 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 38 drying drying NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ _ 40 poles pole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nmod _ _ 41 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 40 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:obj 42 « « PUNCT `` _ 48 punct _ _ 43 just just ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 44 after after ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 46 hissy hissy NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 compound _ _ 47 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 46 punct _ _ 48 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 49 » » PUNCT '' _ 48 punct _ _ 50 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 51 « « PUNCT `` _ 53 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct 52 to to PART TO _ 53 mark _ _ 53 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 advcl _ _ 54 quite quite ADV RB _ 55 advmod _ _ 55 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 53 xcomp _ _ 56 » » PUNCT '' _ 53 punct _ _ 57 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Tegumai | | | | | of a spotty snake; first *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **hiss** *in a quote* | present | a spotty snake | sh sh | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sh=Topic | | 3 | **fear** | present | Taffy | | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **leave out** | could · passive | | the spots | | a hurry | | | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **put** | past | spots *= spot* | a picture of the drying poles spots | | | after the hissy snake | for sh | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent picture=Goal | | 6 | **make** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | spots *= spot* *not said here* | | | | | sure *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | 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:18`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×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. 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