Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2: Pau Amma loses his shell, sentence 27
Real life: crabs have their skeleton on the outside; to grow, they climb out of the old shell (this is called moulting) and stay soft for a few days until the new one hardens.
Who acts: crabs, land, new one · What happens: have, grow, climb, call, stay, harden · To what, where: Real life, outside, old shell, this · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2: Pau Amma loses his shell» 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 (crabs, land, new one), 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 life | amod |
| 2 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 4 | crabs | crab | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 skeleton | nmod:poss |
| 7 | skeleton | skeleton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 outside | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 outside | det |
| 10 | outside | outside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 grow | punct |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 grow | mark |
| 13 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 climb | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 climb | punct |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 climb | nsubj |
| 16 | climb | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 shell | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 shell | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 shell | det |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 shell | amod |
| 21 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 climb | obl |
| 22 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 25 called | punct |
| 23 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 called | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 called | aux:pass |
| 25 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 climb | parataxis |
| 26 | moulting | moulting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 called | xcomp |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 25 called | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 stay | cc |
| 29 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 climb | conj |
| 30 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 stay | xcomp |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 days | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 days | det |
| 33 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 days | amod |
| 34 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 stay | obl |
| 35 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 39 hardens | mark |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 one | det |
| 37 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 one | amod |
| 38 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 hardens | nsubj |
| 39 | hardens | harden | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 stay | advcl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 life | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | crabs | Real life | the outside | tree rules | |||
| 2 | grow | to-infinitive | land not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | climb | present | land | the old shell | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out shell=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | call | present · passive | this | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | stay | infinitive | land not said here | day | soft property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 6 | harden | present | the new one | 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:books:091-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell.lesson:27.
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, R7-rel-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.
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