Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3: the Moon pulls the sea, and how tides really work, sentence 28

That is why they nip you with their scissors, and it serves you right!» Kipling also says it isn't fair to hunt Pau Amma's babies just because of their father's old rudeness.

Who acts: That, babies, hard, Kipling · What happens: be, nip, serve, say, not be, hunt · To what, where: you, babies · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (That, babies, hard, Kipling), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 why	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 why	cop
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 nip	advmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 nip	nsubj
5	nip	nip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 serves	advcl
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 nip	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 scissors	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 scissors	nmod:poss
9	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 nip	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 serves	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 serves	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 serves	nsubj
13	serves	serve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 serves	obj
15	right	right	ADV	_	13 serves	advmod
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 serves	punct
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 says	punct
18	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 says	nsubj
19	also	also	ADV	_	20 says	advmod
20	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 serves	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 fair	expl
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 fair	cop
23	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 fair	advmod
24	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 says	ccomp
25	to	to	PART	_	26 hunt	mark
26	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 fair	csubj
27	Pau	Pau	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 babies	nmod:poss
28	Amma	Amma	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Pau	flat
29	's	's	PART	_	27 Pau	case
30	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 hunt	obj
31	just	just	ADV	_	38 rudeness	advmod
32	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	38 rudeness	case
33	of	of	ADP	_	32 because	fixed
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 father	nmod:poss
35	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 rudeness	nmod:poss
36	's	's	PART	_	35 father	case
37	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 rudeness	amod
38	rudeness	rudeness	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hunt	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 why	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: evaluate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	That		why property	tree rules
2	nip	present	babies = baby	you	with babies's scissors	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location you=Theme
3	serve	present	hard	you	right property	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Attribute
4	say speech: assert in a quote	present	Kipling			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	not is in a quote	present			fair property	tree rules
6	hunt in a quote	to-infinitive		Pau's babies	because babies's father's old rudeness	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme

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:28.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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