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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 c --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 2: yo, so, sho, shi, and shu-ya, the sky-water, sentence 7 For «shu», sky, they need a thin oo-sound, so Daddy draws the round egg with a little hole at the end, where the sound runs out thin. **Who acts:** shu, Daddy, sound · **What happens:** need, draw, run out · **To what, where:** thin oo sound, round egg 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 (shu, Daddy, sound), 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:7 # text = For «shu», sky, they need a thin oo-sound, so Daddy draws the round egg with a little hole at the end, where the sound runs out thin. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 For for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 « « DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 shu shu NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 4 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 11 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 12 oo oo NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ _ 14 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:cc|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_ 17 Daddy Daddy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 draws draw VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 round round ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 26 at at ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 33 advmod _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:det 32 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:acl:relcl 34 out out ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=33:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 35 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 xcomp _ _ 36 . . 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 | **need** | present | shu | a thin oo sound | | | | for « shu and sky | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sound=Theme | | 2 | **draw** | present | Daddy | the round egg | | | | with a little hole at the end | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme | | 3 | **run out** | present | the sound | | | | | thin *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. 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