--- title: Taffy asks for «a little bit of stick or something between each word… — Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part… · tree and pragmatics description: Taffy asks for «a little bit of stick or something between each word, so's they won't rub up against each other and jostle»; Daddy says he will leave a space. Who acts: Taffy, words, Daddy. 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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 (Taffy, words, Daddy), 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:16 # text = Taffy asks for «a little bit of stick or something between each word, so's they won't rub up against each other and jostle»; Daddy says he will leave a space. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Taffy Taffy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 stick stick NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 7 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj 12 between between ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 14 det _ _ 14 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 17 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 wo will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 rub rub VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 22 up up ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 against against ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 21 obl _ _ 25 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 fixed _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 jostle jostle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 28 » » PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 Daddy Daddy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 31 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 ccomp _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Taffy | | | | | for a little bit of stick | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | words *= word* | | | | | against each; rub *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **jostle** *in a quote* | infinitive | words *= word* *not said here* | » | | | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent »=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Daddy | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **leave** | future | Daddy | a space | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:089-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete.lesson:16`. **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, R7-rel-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. 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