Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3: the Moon pulls the sea, and how tides really work, sentence 32

Real life: spring tides, the biggest, come at full moon and new moon, when the Sun and Moon pull in a line; neap tides, the smallest, come at half moon.

Who acts: Sun, neap tides · What happens: come, pull · To what, where: full moon, line, spring tides, half moon

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 (Sun, neap tides), 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	_	5 tides	punct
4	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tides	compound
5	tides	tide	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 life	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 biggest	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 biggest	det
8	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 tides	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 come	punct
10	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 biggest	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 moon	case
12	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 moon	amod
13	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 come	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 moon	cc
15	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 moon	amod
16	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 moon	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 pull	punct
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 pull	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Sun	det
20	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 pull	nsubj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 Moon	cc
22	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Sun	conj
23	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 come	advcl
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 line	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 line	det
26	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pull	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 tides	punct
28	neap	neap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 tides	amod
29	tides	tide	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 come	nsubj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 smallest	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 smallest	det
32	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 tides	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 come	punct
34	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tides	acl:relcl
35	at	at	ADP	_	37 moon	case
36	half	half	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	37 moon	amod
37	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 come	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 life	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come	infinitive			full moon and new moon	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at moon=Location
2	pull	present	the Sun and Moon		a line	vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	infinitive	neap tides	spring tides not said here	half moon	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tide=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:32.

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, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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