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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, las, family), 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:18 # text = T: Taffy, Tegumai and Teshumai all begin with that sound, so they drew a family holding hands, which became «a thin long Tegumai with his arms out». # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 T t NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 dep _ _ 2 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 3 Taffy Taffy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 Tegumai Tegumai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 Teshumai Teshumai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=5:conj 8 all all ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 begin begin VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 12 det _ _ 12 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:det 18 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:compound 19 holding holding NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:acl:relcl 24 « « PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 26 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 27 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 Tegumai Tegumai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:obj 29 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 32 out out ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 » » PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 34 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | present | Taffy and Tegumai and Teshumai | | | | | with that sound; all *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with sound=Subeventuality | | 2 | **draw** | past | las *= la* | a family | | | | | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent family=Beneficiary hand=Result | | 3 | **become** | past | a family | | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:18`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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