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title: "Emoji" is Japanese: "e" (picture) plus "moji" (character); early em… — Texting, abbreviations and emoji · tree and pragmatics
description: "Emoji" is Japanese: "e" (picture) plus "moji" (character); early emoji appeared on Japanese phones in the late 1990s, including a famous set by Shigetaka Kurita in 1999. Who acts: Emoji, early emoji. A sentence of the lesson «Texting, abbreviations and emoji» of the language course of Mova's primar
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# Texting, abbreviations and emoji, sentence 7

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"Emoji" is Japanese: "e" (picture) plus "moji" (character); early emoji appeared on Japanese phones in the late 1990s, including a famous set by Shigetaka Kurita in 1999.

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**Who acts:** Emoji, early emoji · **What happens:** be, appear · **To what, where:** Japanese phones

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Texting, abbreviations and emoji» of the language 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 (Emoji, early emoji), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:030-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji.lesson:7
# text = "Emoji" is Japanese: "e" (picture) plus "moji" (character); early emoji appeared on Japanese phones in the late 1990s, including a famous set by Shigetaka Kurita in 1999.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 030-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji.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
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Emoji	Emoji	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	e	e	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
11	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
13	plus	plus	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
15	moji	moji	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
18	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	emoji	emoji	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
23	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	phones	phone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	1990s	1990s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	23	obl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	including	include	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nmod
36	by	by	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Shigetaka	Shigetaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
38	Kurita	Kurita	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	flat	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	1999	1999	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	nmod	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is** | present | Emoji |  |  |  |  | japanese *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **appear** | past | early emoji *not said here* |  |  | Japanese phones |  | in the late 1990s; include a famous set by Shigetaka in 1999 | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on phone=Location |

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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:language:030-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji.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): R5-strong ×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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