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title: Real life: with a small set of sound-signs you can write ANY word, e… — Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real life: with a small set of sound-signs you can write ANY word, even words for things you cannot draw, like «ending» or «come». Who acts: 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 p
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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 28

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Real life: with a small set of sound-signs you can write ANY word, even words for things you cannot draw, like «ending» or «come».

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** write, not draw, come · **To what, where:** word, things

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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 (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:28
# text = Real life: with a small set of sound-signs you can write ANY word, even words for things you cannot draw, like «ending» or «come».
# 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 ×2
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
15	ANY	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	even	even	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obl
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	like	like	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
29	ending	ending	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
30	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
33	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:conj
34	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **write** | can | you | any word |  |  |  | with a small set of sound signs; like ending | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **draw** | can | you | things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «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:28`.

**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 ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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