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title: Talk in this lesson: «cap» = a lie; «salty» = cross; «I'm dead» = th… — Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, par… · tree and pragmatics
description: Talk in this lesson: «cap» = a lie; «salty» = cross; «I'm dead» = that's so funny. Who acts: you, Suleiman, that. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wise king, a hungry Animal and a butterfly's boast» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its
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# Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wise king, a hungry Animal and a butterfly's boast, sentence 33

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Talk in this lesson: «cap» = a lie; «salty» = cross; «I'm dead» = that's so funny.

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**Who acts:** you, Suleiman, that · **What happens:** talk, be · **To what, where:** lesson · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wise king, a hungry Animal and a butterfly's boast» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Suleiman, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:096-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast.lesson:33
# text = Talk in this lesson: «cap» = a lie; «salty» = cross; «I'm dead» = that's so funny.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 096-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast.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): R6-punct-agree ×2
1	Talk	talk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	«	«	X	GW	ExtPos=PROPN	4	appos	_	_
7	cap	cap	X	GW	_	6	flat	_	_
8	»	»	X	GW	_	6	flat	_	_
9	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	11	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
14	salty	salty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	flat	_	_
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
16	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	6	punct	_	_
17	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
23	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	nsubj	_	_
26	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | this lesson |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Suleiman |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | funny *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:096-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast.lesson:33`.

**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): R6-punct-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/).

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