--- title: All evening they draw signs in the smoke on the Cave wall and giggle… — Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part… · tree and pragmatics description: All evening they draw signs in the smoke on the Cave wall and giggle, and Mummy says «Really, Tegumai, you're worse than my Taffy.» Next morning Taffy finds «Ya-las», water is running out, chalked on the water-tank, and she fills it before running to pull her Daddy's left ear. 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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 (words, Mummy, you, Taffy), 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:5 # text = All evening they draw signs in the smoke on the Cave wall and giggle, and Mummy says «Really, Tegumai, you're worse than my Taffy.» Next morning Taffy finds «Ya-las», water is running out, chalked on the water-tank, and she fills it before running to pull her Daddy's left ear. # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×5 1 All all DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 draw draw VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advcl 5 signs sign NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 smoke smoke NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 Cave cave PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 12 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 giggle giggle VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 Mummy Mummy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 19 « « PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 20 Really really ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 Tegumai Tegumai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 ccomp _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 18 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:parataxis 27 than than ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 Taffy Taffy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ 31 » » PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=35:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_ 32 Next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl:unmarked _ _ 34 Taffy Taffy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 finds find VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 36 « « ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 Ya Ya PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 39 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=37:punct 39 las la NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 40 » » PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=35:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 43 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 running run VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 35 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:conj 45 out out ADP RP _ 44 compound:prt _ _ 46 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 47 chalked chalk VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 39 acl _ _ 48 on on ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 50 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 compound _ _ 51 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 50 punct _ _ 52 tank tank NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obl _ _ 53 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 54 and and CCONJ CC _ 56 cc _ _ 55 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 56 nsubj _ _ 56 fills fill VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 57 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 56 obj _ _ 58 before before SCONJ IN _ 59 mark _ _ 59 running run VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 56 advcl _ _ 60 to to PART TO _ 61 mark _ _ 61 pull pull VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 59 xcomp _ _ 62 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 63 nmod:poss _ _ 63 Daddy Daddy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 66 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=66:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 64 's 's PART POS _ 63 case _ _ 65 left left ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 66 amod _ _ 66 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 obj _ _ 67 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18: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 | words *= word* | signs | | the smoke | evening | on the Cave wall | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sign=Theme in smoke=Destination | | 2 | **giggle** | present | words *= word* *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Mummy | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | than my Taffy; bad *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **find** | present | Taffy | | | | morning | « Ya las | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **run out** | present · progressive | water | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **chalk** | participle | | Ya las *not said here* | | the water tank | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on tank=Destination | | 8 | **fill** | present | Taffy | sign | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 9 | **run** | gerund | Taffy *not said here* | | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 10 | **pull** | to-infinitive | Taffy *not said here* | Taffy's Daddy's left ear | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=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:5`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×5. **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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