Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3: the Moon pulls the sea, and how tides really work, sentence 11
Pau Amma's babies hide under stones, wave their scissors, climb palm-trees for coconuts and go soft once a year, and they nip you if you take them home in a pickle-bottle, which serves you right.
Who acts: babies, you, pickle bottle · What happens: hide, wave, climb, go, nip, take · To what, where: stones, scissors, palm trees, you, babies, pickle bottle
This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3: the Moon pulls the sea, and how tides really work» 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 (babies, you, pickle bottle), 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 | Pau | Pau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 babies | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Amma | Amma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Pau | flat |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Pau | case |
| 4 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hide | nsubj |
| 5 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 7 stones | case |
| 7 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hide | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wave | punct |
| 9 | wave | wave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hide | conj |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 scissors | nmod:poss |
| 11 | scissors | scissors | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 wave | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 climb | punct |
| 13 | climb | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hide | conj |
| 14 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 trees | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 palm | punct |
| 16 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 climb | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 coconuts | case |
| 18 | coconuts | coconut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 climb | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 go | cc |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hide | conj |
| 21 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 go | xcomp |
| 22 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 20 go | advmod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 year | det |
| 24 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 once | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 nip | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 nip | cc |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 nip | nsubj |
| 28 | nip | nip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hide | conj |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 nip | obj |
| 30 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 32 take | mark |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 take | nsubj |
| 32 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 nip | advcl |
| 33 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 take | obj |
| 34 | home | home | ADV | _ | 32 take | advmod |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 bottle | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 bottle | det |
| 37 | pickle | pickle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 bottle | compound |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 pickle | punct |
| 39 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 take | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 serves | punct |
| 41 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 serves | nsubj |
| 42 | serves | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 bottle | acl:relcl |
| 43 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 42 serves | obj |
| 44 | right | right | ADV | _ | 42 serves | advmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hide | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | present | Pau's babies | stones | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under stone=Location | ||||
| 2 | wave | present | Pau's babies not said here | babies's scissors | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scissors=Patient | ||||
| 3 | climb | present | Pau's babies not said here | palm trees | for coconuts | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme | |||
| 4 | go | present | Pau's babies not said here | once, soft property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | nip | present | babies = baby | you | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location you=Theme | ||||
| 6 | take a condition, not said to happen | present | you | babies = baby | a pickle bottle | home property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Value in bottle=Location | ||
| 7 | serve | present | a pickle bottle | you | right property | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Attribute |
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:092-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea.lesson:11.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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