Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3: the Moon pulls the sea, and how tides really work, sentence 29

The end-poem is a riddle about steamship companies of 1902: the lines that sail east past Singapore, like P. and O. and B.I., pass Pau Amma's playground; the Atlantic lines never go there.

Who acts: end poem, lines, Atlantic lines · What happens: be, sail, pass, not go · To what, where: riddle, Singapore, playground

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 (end poem, lines, Atlantic lines), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 poem	det
2	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 poem	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 end	punct
4	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 riddle	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 riddle	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 riddle	det
7	riddle	riddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 companies	case
9	steamship	steamship	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 companies	compound
10	companies	company	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 riddle	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 1902	case
12	1902	1902	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 companies	nmod
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 lines	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lines	det
15	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 pass	nsubj
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 sail	nsubj
17	sail	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 lines	acl:relcl
18	east	east	ADV	_	17 sail	advmod
19	past	past	ADP	_	20 Singapore	case
20	Singapore	Singapore	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 sail	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 P.	punct
22	like	like	ADP	_	23 P.	case
23	P.	P.	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 lines	nmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 O	cc
25	O	O	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 P.	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 P.	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 B.I	cc
28	B.I	B.I	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 P.	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 P.	punct
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 pass	punct
31	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 riddle	parataxis
32	Pau	Pau	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 playground	nmod:poss
33	Amma	Amma	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Pau	flat
34	's	's	PART	_	32 Pau	case
35	playground	playground	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pass	obj
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 go	punct
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 lines	det
38	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 lines	compound
39	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 go	nsubj
40	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	41 go	advmod
41	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 pass	parataxis
42	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 go	advmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 riddle	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the end poem	a riddle		about steamship companies of 1902	tree rules
2	sail	present	the lines like P. and O and B.I		Singapore	east property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent past singapore=Trajectory
3	pass	infinitive	the lines like P. and O and B.I	Pau's playground			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme playground=Trajectory
4	not go	present	the Atlantic lines		there		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:29.

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): 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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