The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, leopard, elephant, kangaroo, armadillo and crab, sentence 18

A crab's skeleton is on the outside; to grow it climbs out of its old shell, which is called moulting, and it hides for a few days while the new shell hardens.

Who acts: skeleton, new shell · What happens: be, grow, climb, call, hide, harden · To what, where: outside, old shell · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, leopard, elephant, kangaroo, armadillo and crab» of the biology 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 (skeleton, new shell), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 crab	det
2	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 skeleton	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 crab	case
4	skeleton	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 outside	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 outside	cop
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 outside	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 outside	det
8	outside	outside	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 grow	punct
10	to	to	PART	_	11 grow	mark
11	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 climbs	advcl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 climbs	nsubj
13	climbs	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 outside	parataxis
14	out	out	ADP	_	18 shell	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 shell	case
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 shell	nmod:poss
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 shell	amod
18	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 climbs	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 called	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 called	nsubj:pass
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 called	aux:pass
22	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 shell	acl:relcl
23	moulting	moulting	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 called	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 hides	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 hides	cc
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 hides	nsubj
27	hides	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 climbs	conj
28	for	for	ADP	_	31 days	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 days	det
30	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 days	amod
31	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 hides	obl
32	while	while	SCONJ	_	36 hardens	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 shell	det
34	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 shell	amod
35	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 hardens	nsubj
36	hardens	harden	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 hides	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 outside	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is	present	a crab's skeleton		the outside		tree rules
2	grow	to-infinitive	skeleton not said here				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	climb	present	skeleton		skeleton's old shell		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out shell=Trajectory
4	call	present · passive		skeleton's old shell			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
5	hide	present	skeleton			day	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	harden	present	the new shell				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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:biology:404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab.lesson:18.

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, R7-rel-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.

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