Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3: the Moon pulls the sea, and how tides really work, sentence 30
Real life: tides ARE made by the Moon, by its gravity, its pull, together with a smaller pull from the Sun; Kipling's fairy-tale reason has a true heart.
Who acts: Moon, tale reason, life · What happens: make, have, pull · To what, where: tides, true heart
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 (Moon, tale reason, life), 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 | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
| 4 | tides | tide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 made | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | ARE | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | aux:pass |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 life | parataxis |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 Moon | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Moon | det |
| 9 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gravity | punct |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 gravity | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 gravity | nmod:poss |
| 13 | gravity | gravity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pull | punct |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 pull | nmod:poss |
| 16 | pull | pull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gravity | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 together | punct |
| 18 | together | together | ADV | _ | 6 made | advmod |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 pull | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 pull | det |
| 21 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 pull | amod |
| 22 | pull | pull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 together | obl |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 Sun | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Sun | det |
| 25 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 pull | nmod |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 has | punct |
| 27 | Kipling | kipling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 reason | nmod:poss |
| 28 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 27 Kipling | case |
| 29 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 tale | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 fairy | punct |
| 31 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 reason | compound |
| 32 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 has | nsubj |
| 33 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | conj |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 heart | det |
| 35 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 heart | amod |
| 36 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 has | obj |
| 37 | . | . | 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 | make | present · passive | the Moon | tides | by life's gravity and life's pull; together property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product | |||
| 2 | have | present | Kipling's tale reason | a true heart | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | ||||
| 3 | pull | life | nom pull «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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:30.
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 ×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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