--- title: A big coconut crab is about a metre across with its legs spread, so… — Reef giants and wanderers: whale sharks, mantas,… · tree and pragmatics description: A big coconut crab is about a metre across with its legs spread, so it would still fit in your arms; like other crabs it has ten legs, counting its two big claws. Who acts: big coconut crab, legs, crab. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (big coconut crab, legs, crab), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:174-reef-giants-and-wanderers-whale-sharks-mantas-dugongs-and-sea-turtles.lesson:12 # text = A big coconut crab is about a metre across with its legs spread, so it would still fit in your arms; like other crabs it has ten legs, counting its two big claws. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 174-reef-giants-and-wanderers-whale-sharks-mantas-dugongs-and-sea-turtles.lesson # annotation = 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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 coconut coconut NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 crab crab NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 about about ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 metre metre NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 across across ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 spread spread VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 still still ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 fit fit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 24 like like ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 crabs crab NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ _ 29 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 counting count VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 conj _ _ 33 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 34 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 36 nummod _ _ 35 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 claws claw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a big coconut crab | a metre | | | | about, across *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **spread** | participle | crab's legs | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **fit** | would | crab | | | your arms | still | | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in arm=Trajectory | | 4 | **have** | present | crab | ten legs | | | | like other crabs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | | 5 | **count** | gerund | crab *not said here* | crab's two big claws | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:biology:174-reef-giants-and-wanderers-whale-sharks-mantas-dugongs-and-sea-turtles.lesson:12`. **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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