--- title: Real life: our M probably began as wavy water, B as a house, K as an… — Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part… · tree and pragmatics description: Real life: our M probably began as wavy water, B as a house, K as an open hand; G was made by the Romans by adding a little bar to C. Who acts: M, Romans. 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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 (M, Romans), 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:25 # text = Real life: our M probably began as wavy water, B as a house, K as an open hand; G was made by the Romans by adding a little bar to C. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 4 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 M m NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 6 probably probably ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 8 as as ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 wavy wavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 B B PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 13 as as ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 K K PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 18 as as ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 23 G G PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 parataxis _ _ 26 by by ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 Romans Roman PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 25 obl:agent _ _ 29 by by SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 30 adding add VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 bar bar NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 C. C NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | past | our M | B | | | | as wavy water; as a house; K as a open hand *obl*; probably *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **make** | past · passive | the Romans | G | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product | | 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | gerund | the Romans *not said here* | a little bar | | | | to C. | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent bar=Patient to c=Co-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. 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