Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 1: a carp-fish's mouth, a tail, an egg and a snake, sentence 8

Tegumai's eyes shine: he thinks his daughter has found the biggest secret of the world, better even than shark's teeth instead of flints.

Who acts: eyes, Daddy, daughter · What happens: shine, think, find · To what, where: biggest secret · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (eyes, Daddy, daughter), 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	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 eyes	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Tegumai	case
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shine	nsubj
4	shine	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 thinks	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 thinks	nsubj
7	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 shine	parataxis
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 daughter	nmod:poss
9	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 found	nsubj
10	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 found	aux
11	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 thinks	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 secret	det
13	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 secret	amod
14	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 found	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 world	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 world	det
17	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 secret	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 teeth	punct
19	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 teeth	advmod
20	even	even	ADV	_	24 teeth	advmod
21	than	than	ADP	_	24 teeth	case
22	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 teeth	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 shark	case
24	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 secret	nmod
25	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	27 flints	case
26	of	of	ADP	_	25 instead	fixed
27	flints	flint	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 teeth	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shine	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shine	present	Tegumai's eyes			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	think speech: other	present	Daddy			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	find	present · perfect	Daddy's daughter	the biggest secret of the world	than shark's teeth instead flints	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Topic

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:8.

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): no change. 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.

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