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title: "Emoji" is Japanese: "e" means picture and "moji" means character; t… — The big language quiz · tree and pragmatics
description: "Emoji" is Japanese: "e" means picture and "moji" means character; the likeness to "emotion" is a coincidence. Who acts: Emoji, e, moji, likeness. A sentence of the lesson «The big language quiz» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The big language quiz, sentence 14

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"Emoji" is Japanese: "e" means picture and "moji" means character; the likeness to "emotion" is a coincidence.

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**Who acts:** Emoji, e, moji, likeness · **What happens:** be, mean · **To what, where:** picture, character, coincidence

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The big language quiz» 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, e, moji, likeness), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:040-the-big-language-quiz.lesson:14
# text = "Emoji" is Japanese: "e" means picture and "moji" means character; the likeness to "emotion" is a coincidence.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 040-the-big-language-quiz.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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	:	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	e	e	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
11	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
14	moji	moji	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
17	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	likeness	likeness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:case|HaikuPos=ADP:TO:_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
23	emotion	emotion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	coincidence	coincidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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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 | **mean** | present | e | picture |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Topic |
| 3 | **mean** | present | moji | character |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent character=Topic |
| 4 | **is a** | present | the likeness to emotion | a coincidence |  |  |  |  | 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:language:040-the-big-language-quiz.lesson:14`.

**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 ×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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