--- title: «Las» means ending, breaking or finishing; «to-las» means no water i… — Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part… · tree and pragmatics description: «Las» means ending, breaking or finishing; «to-las» means no water in the tank for Mummy, and «shi-las» means the spear is broken. Who acts: Las, to las. 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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 (Las, to 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:12 # text = «Las» means ending, breaking or finishing; «to-las» means no water in the tank for Mummy, and «shi-las» means the spear is broken. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Las Las PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 ending end VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:ccomp 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 breaking break VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 conj _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 finishing finish VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 conj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 11 « « PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 14 compound _ _ 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ _ 14 las la NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 16 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 17 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 18 det _ _ 18 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 tank tank NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obl 22 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 Mummy Mummy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 « « PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 27 shi shi NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 29 las la NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 30 » » PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 31 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 spear spear NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj:pass _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux:pass _ _ 35 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 ccomp _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Las | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **end** | gerund | | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **break** | gerund | | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **finish** | gerund | | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **mean** | present | to las | no water | | | | in the tank for Mummy and shi las | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot water=Theme in tank=Attribute | | 6 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **break** | present · passive | | the spear | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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:089-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete.lesson:12`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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. 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