Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 1: a carp-fish's mouth, a tail, an egg and a snake, sentence 12
Taffy «sat mousy-quiet for ten whole minutes» while her Daddy scratched on birch-bark with a shark's tooth.
Who acts: Taffy, Daddy · What happens: sit, scratch · To what, where: birch bark
This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 1: a carp-fish's mouth, a tail, an egg and a snake» 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 (Taffy, Daddy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taffy | Taffy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | mousy | mousy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 quiet | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 mousy | punct |
| 6 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sat | xcomp |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 minutes | case |
| 8 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 minutes | nummod |
| 9 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 minutes | amod |
| 10 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sat | obl |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 scratched | mark |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 Daddy | nmod:poss |
| 14 | Daddy | Daddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 scratched | nsubj |
| 15 | scratched | scratch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | advcl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 bark | case |
| 17 | birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bark | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 birch | punct |
| 19 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 scratched | obl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 tooth | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 shark | det |
| 22 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 tooth | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 shark | case |
| 24 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 scratched | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit in a quote | past | Taffy | minute | quiet property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | scratch | past | Taffy's Daddy | birch bark | with a shark's tooth | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with tooth=Instrument |
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.
Licence: CC 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:087-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth.lesson:12.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/87-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth/12/