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title: The book also holds words and ideas of 1902 about some peoples of th… — Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, par… · tree and pragmatics
description: The book also holds words and ideas of 1902 about some peoples of the world that are hurtful and wrong today; we read it as an old book and say so plainly. Who acts: book, peoples, we. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise
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# Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends, sentence 37

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The book also holds words and ideas of 1902 about some peoples of the world that are hurtful and wrong today; we read it as an old book and say so plainly.

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**Who acts:** book, peoples, we · **What happens:** hold, be, read, say · **To what, where:** words, word · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends» 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 (book, peoples, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:097-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends.lesson:37
# text = The book also holds words and ideas of 1902 about some peoples of the world that are hurtful and wrong today; we read it as an old book and say so plainly.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 097-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	1902	1902	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod
10	about	about	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	hurtful	hurtful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	acl:relcl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
21	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
23	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	read	read	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
32	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	plainly	plainly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **hold** | present | the book | words of 1902 and ideas |  |  |  | about some peoples of the world | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent word=Theme about people=Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | some peoples of the world |  |  |  | today | hurtful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | some peoples of the world *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **read** | past | we | word |  |  |  | as a old book | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus as book=Attribute |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  | plainly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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:097-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends.lesson:37`.

**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, 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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