Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3: the Moon pulls the sea, and how tides really work, sentence 4

He snaps them happily: now he can eat nuts, crack shells, dig holes, climb trees, breathe in dry air and hide under any stone.

Who acts: Pau · What happens: snap, eat, crack, dig, climb, breathe · To what, where: scissors, nuts, shells, holes, trees, dry air

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 (Pau), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 snaps	nsubj
2	snaps	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 snaps	obj
4	happily	happily	ADV	_	2 snaps	advmod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 eat	punct
6	now	now	ADV	_	9 eat	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 eat	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 eat	aux
9	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 snaps	parataxis
10	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 eat	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 shells	punct
12	crack	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 eat	conj
13	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 crack	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dig	punct
15	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 eat	conj
16	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 dig	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 climb	punct
18	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 eat	conj
19	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 climb	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 breathe	punct
21	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 eat	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 air	case
23	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 air	amod
24	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 breathe	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 hide	cc
26	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 eat	conj
27	under	under	ADP	_	29 stone	case
28	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	29 stone	det
29	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hide	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 snaps	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snap	present	Pau	scissors			happily property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme
2	eat	can	Pau	nuts		now		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Patient
3	crack	infinitive	Pau not said here	shells				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shell=Theme
4	dig	infinitive	Pau not said here	holes				vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=Theme
5	climb	infinitive	Pau not said here	trees				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
6	breathe	infinitive	Pau not said here		dry air			vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	hide	infinitive	Pau not said here		any stone			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under stone=Location

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:4.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-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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