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title: «Shu-ya-las, ya maru» means «Sky-water ending. — Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: «Shu-ya-las, ya maru» means «Sky-water ending. Who acts: Shu ya las. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 3: «the Alphabet, all complete», and how letters really began» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 3: «the Alphabet, all complete», and how letters really began, sentence 10

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«Shu-ya-las, ya maru» means «Sky-water ending.

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**Who acts:** Shu ya las · **What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** water ending

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 3: «the Alphabet, all complete», and how letters really began» 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 ya las), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:089-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete.lesson:10
# text = «Shu-ya-las, ya maru» means «Sky-water ending.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 089-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
2	Shu	shu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	ya	ya	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
6	las	la	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	ya	ya	X	GW	_	6	appos	_	_
9	maru	maru	X	GW	_	8	flat	_	_
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
11	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
13	Sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
15	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	ending	ending	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Shu ya las | water ending |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ending=Topic |

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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:089-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete.lesson:10`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1. **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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