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title: So Daddy opens «a little hole at the end of the round egg to show ho… — Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: So Daddy opens «a little hole at the end of the round egg to show how the O-noise runs out all thin, ooo-oo-oo». Who acts: Daddy, O noise. 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 
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# Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 2: yo, so, sho, shi, and shu-ya, the sky-water, sentence 22

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So Daddy opens «a little hole at the end of the round egg to show how the O-noise runs out all thin, ooo-oo-oo».

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**Who acts:** Daddy, O noise · **What happens:** open, show, run out · **To what, where:** little hole, end · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Daddy, O noise), 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:22
# text = So Daddy opens «a little hole at the end of the round egg to show how the O-noise runs out all thin, ooo-oo-oo».
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Daddy	Daddy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	opens	open	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:acl
17	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	O	o	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	_
21	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
24	all	all	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	ooo	ooo	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	_
29	oo	oo	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct
31	oo	oo	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
32	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | present | Daddy | a little hole |  |  | at the end of the round egg |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent hole=Theme at end=Location |
| 2 | **show** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Daddy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **run out** *in a quote* | present | the O noise |  |  |  |  | thin *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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:22`.

**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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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/).

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