Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3: the Moon pulls the sea, and how tides really work, sentence 34
Real life: young crabs moult many times a year and older ones less often, some about once a year; the coconut crab of the Indian and Pacific Ocean islands really climbs palm-trees and cracks coconuts with its huge claws.
Who acts: young crabs, coconut crab · What happens: moult, climb, crack · To what, where: palm trees, coconuts
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 (young crabs, coconut crab), 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 | _ | 2 life | punct |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 crabs | amod |
| 5 | crabs | crab | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 moult | nsubj |
| 6 | moult | moult | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 life | parataxis |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 times | amod |
| 8 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 moult | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 year | det |
| 10 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 times | nmod:unmarked |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ones | cc |
| 12 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 ones | amod |
| 13 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 times | conj |
| 14 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 ones | advmod |
| 15 | often | often | ADV | _ | 14 less | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 some | punct |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 times | conj |
| 18 | about | about | ADV | _ | 19 once | advmod |
| 19 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 21 year | advmod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 year | det |
| 21 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 some | nmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 crab | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 crab | det |
| 24 | coconut | coconut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 crab | compound |
| 25 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 climbs | nsubj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 islands | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 islands | det |
| 28 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 islands | amod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 Ocean | cc |
| 30 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Ocean | compound |
| 31 | Ocean | Ocean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 islands | compound |
| 32 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 crab | nmod |
| 33 | really | really | ADV | _ | 34 climbs | advmod |
| 34 | climbs | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 life | parataxis |
| 35 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 trees | compound |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 palm | punct |
| 37 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 climbs | obj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 cracks | cc |
| 39 | cracks | crack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 climbs | conj |
| 40 | coconuts | coconut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 cracks | obj |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 claws | case |
| 42 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 claws | nmod:poss |
| 43 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 claws | amod |
| 44 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 cracks | obl |
| 45 | . | . | 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 | moult | present | young crabs | time | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | climb | present | the coconut crab of the Indian Ocean islands | palm trees | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme | ||||
| 3 | crack | present | the coconut crab of the Indian Ocean islands not said here | coconuts | with life's huge claws | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent coconut=Patient with claw=Instrument |
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:34.
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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