--- title: Other signs: the snake turned the other way round for Z, «a twiddle… — Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part… · tree and pragmatics description: Other signs: the snake turned the other way round for Z, «a twiddle for E» (it came into the pictures so often that it got smaller and smaller), the sacred Beaver for B, noses for N, the big lake-pike's mouth for G, the pike's mouth with a spear behind it for K, and the winding Wagai river for W. 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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 (snake), 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:19 # text = Other signs: the snake turned the other way round for Z, «a twiddle for E» (it came into the pictures so often that it got smaller and smaller), the sacred Beaver for B, noses for N, the big lake-pike's mouth for G, the pike's mouth with a spear behind it for K, and the winding Wagai river for W. # 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 signs sign NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 dislocated _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 round round ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Z z PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 « « PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 twiddle twiddle NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 E e X GW _ 16 flat _ _ 19 » » PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 20 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:advcl 23 into into ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 pictures picture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 26 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 often often ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 28 that that SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 31 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 30 xcomp _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 31 conj _ _ 34 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 sacred sacred ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 Beaver Beaver PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 39 for for ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 B B PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 41 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 42 noses nose NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=38:parataxis 43 for for ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 N N PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl 45 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 47 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 48 lake lake NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 compound _ _ 49 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 48 punct _ _ 50 pike pike NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nmod:poss _ _ 51 's 's PART POS _ 50 case _ _ 52 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 53 for for ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 54 G G NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nmod _ _ 55 , , PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 56 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 57 det _ _ 57 pike pike NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 nmod:poss _ _ 58 's 's PART POS _ 57 case _ _ 59 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 60 with with ADP IN _ 62 case _ _ 61 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 62 det _ _ 62 spear spear NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl 63 behind behind ADP IN _ 64 case _ _ 64 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 62 nmod _ _ 65 for for ADP IN _ 66 case _ _ 66 K K PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 67 , , PUNCT , _ 72 punct _ _ 68 and and CCONJ CC _ 72 cc _ _ 69 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 72 det _ _ 70 winding winding NOUN NN Number=Sing 72 compound _ _ 71 Wagai Wagai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 72 compound _ _ 72 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 73 for for ADP IN _ 74 case _ _ 74 W. W. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 72 nmod _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | past | the snake | the other way | | | | for Z; for K; Other signs *dislocated*; a twiddle *obl*; the sacred Beaver for B and noses for N *obl*; the big lake pike's mouth for G *obl*; the pike's mouth with a spear behind spear *obl*; the winding Wagai river for W. *obl* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent way=Theme | | 2 | **come** | past | snake | | | the pictures | | often *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into picture=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **get** | past | snake | | | | | small *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:19`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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