--- title: They turn the snake round for Z, make a twiddle for E, beavers for B… — Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part… · tree and pragmatics description: They turn the snake round for Z, make a twiddle for E, beavers for B, noses for N, a pike's mouth for G and K, and the winding river for W, and there is the Alphabet, all complete. Who acts: hands, Alphabet. 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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 (hands, Alphabet), 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:8 # text = They turn the snake round for Z, make a twiddle for E, beavers for B, noses for N, a pike's mouth for G and K, and the winding river for W, and there is the Alphabet, all complete. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 round round ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Z z NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 make make VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 twiddle twiddle NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 E E PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 beavers beaver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 B B PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 noses nose NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 N N PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 pike pike NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 's 's PART POS _ 24 case _ _ 26 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 appos _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 G G NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 K K PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 winding winding NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 36 for for ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 W W PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 41 expl _ _ 41 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 Alphabet alphabet NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 44 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 45 all all ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=46:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Tot 46 complete complete ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **turn** | present | hands *= hand* | the snake | | | | for Z; round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme snake=Result | | 2 | **make** | infinitive | hands *= hand* *not said here* | a twiddle and beavers for B and noses for N and the winding river for W | | | | for E | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent twiddle=Product for e=Beneficiary | | 3 | **be** | present | the Alphabet | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:8`. **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, 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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