--- title: Daddy jokes with «shi», the word for spear, and draws it as one stra… — Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part… · tree and pragmatics description: Daddy jokes with «shi», the word for spear, and draws it as one straight line: «Even Mummy couldn't mistake that for me being killed.» Taffy asks him not to tease. Who acts: Daddy, «, Taffy. 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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 (Daddy, «, Taffy), 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:6 # text = Daddy jokes with «shi», the word for spear, and draws it as one straight line: «Even Mummy couldn't mistake that for me being killed.» Taffy asks him not to tease. # 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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Daddy Daddy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 jokes joke VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 5 shi shi NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:compound 6 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj 10 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 spear spear NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 draws draw VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 as as ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 18 straight straight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 20 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 21 « « NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 22 Even even ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 Mummy Mummy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:appos 24 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 mistake mistake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 27 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 26 obj _ _ 28 for for SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 killed kill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 advcl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ 33 » » PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:NFP:_ 34 Taffy Taffy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 36 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 tease tease VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 xcomp _ _ 40 . . 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 | **joke** *speech: other* | present | Daddy | shi | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **draw** | present | Daddy *not said here* | spear | | | | as one straight line | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Result as line=Attribute | | 3 | **not** **mistake** *in a quote* | could | « | that | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **kill** *in a quote* | gerund · passive | | Daddy | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Taffy | | Mummy | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **not** **tease** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Taffy *not said here* | | | | | | vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: 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:6`. **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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/88-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water/5/) - next →: [Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/88-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/88-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water/)