--- title: For «maru» they draw a shut mouth for the mum-sound, and for the rou… — Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part… · tree and pragmatics description: For «maru» they draw a shut mouth for the mum-sound, and for the rough rrr, a saw-edge like Daddy's shark-tooth saw, but with only one tooth, because the simpler the signs, the better for everybody. Who acts: they. 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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 (they), 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:3 # text = For «maru» they draw a shut mouth for the mum-sound, and for the rough rrr, a saw-edge like Daddy's shark-tooth saw, but with only one tooth, because the simpler the signs, the better for everybody. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 For for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 « « PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 3 maru maru X FW Foreign=Yes 6 obl _ _ 4 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 5 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 draw draw VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 shut shut ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ _ 14 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod 15 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 rough rough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 rrr rrr NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 23 saw saw NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ _ 25 edge edge NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 26 like like ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 27 Daddy Daddy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 28 's 's PART POS _ 27 case _ _ 29 shark shark NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ _ 31 tooth tooth NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 saw see NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 34 but but CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 35 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 only only ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 37 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 nummod _ _ 38 tooth tooth NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obl _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 40 because because SCONJ IN ExtPos=ADP 44 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 simpler simple ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 44 amod _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 signs sign NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 conj _ _ 45 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 parataxis _ _ 48 for for ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 everybody everybody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 47 obl _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **draw** | present | they | a shut mouth and a saw edge like tooth saw | | | | for maru; for the mum sound; for the rough rrr | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent mouth=Result for maru=Beneficiary | 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:3`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/89-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete/2/) - next →: [Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/89-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/89-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete/)