--- title: «Mum shuts one's mouth up», so a shut mouth is the m-sign (16.); wit… — Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part… · tree and pragmatics description: «Mum shuts one's mouth up», so a shut mouth is the m-sign (16.); with the open carp-mouth after it, it makes «ma». Who acts: Mum, shut mouth, sign. 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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 (Mum, shut mouth, sign), 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:14 # text = «Mum shuts one's mouth up», so a shut mouth is the m-sign (16.); with the open carp-mouth after it, it makes «ma». # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 shuts shut VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 parataxis _ _ 4 one one PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 shut shut ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 m M NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ _ 18 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 19 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 20 16 16 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 appos _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ 22 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 26 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 27 carp carp NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ _ 29 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 30 after after ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nmod _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 35 « « PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ _ 36 ma ma NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 » » PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shut up** *in a quote* | present | Mum | one's mouth | | | | | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient | | 2 | **is a** | present | a shut mouth | the m sign | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | present | sign | ma | | | | with the open carp mouth after sign | tree rules | 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:14`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-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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