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description: One day, after three weeks of quarrels, Balkis begs him to turn the ring and frighten the Queens, but he remembers the Animal from the sea and says no. Who acts: Balkis. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wise king, a hungry Animal and a butterfly's boas
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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 7

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One day, after three weeks of quarrels, Balkis begs him to turn the ring and frighten the Queens, but he remembers the Animal from the sea and says no.

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**Who acts:** Balkis · **What happens:** beg, turn, frighten, remember, say · **To what, where:** ring, Queens, Animal, sea, no. · **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 (Balkis), 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:7
# text = One day, after three weeks of quarrels, Balkis begs him to turn the ring and frighten the Queens, but he remembers the Animal from the sea and says no.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	quarrels	quarrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	Balkis	Balkis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	begs	beg	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	frighten	frighten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Queens	queen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	remembers	remember	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:obj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
32	no.	no.	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beg** *speech: request* | present | Balkis |  | ring |  | day; week |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **turn** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Balkis *not said here* | the ring |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ring=Theme |
| 3 | **frighten** | infinitive | Balkis *not said here* | the Queens |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus queen=Experiencer |
| 4 | **remember** | present | Balkis | the Animal |  | the sea |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent animal=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Balkis *not said here* | no. |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no.=Topic |

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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:7`.

**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): R8-pos-agree ×1. **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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