--- title: The biggest crab moves in, the next takes its old shell, and so on d… — Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant f… · tree and pragmatics description: The biggest crab moves in, the next takes its old shell, and so on down the queue, like families moving into bigger houses one after another. Who acts: biggest crab, next, families. 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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 (biggest crab, next, families), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs.lesson:6 # text = The biggest crab moves in, the next takes its old shell, and so on down the queue, like families moving into bigger houses one after another. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 3 crab crab NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 nsubj _ _ 9 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 10 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advmod 16 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 down down ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 queue queue NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 like like ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 23 moving move VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 acl _ _ 24 into into ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 26 amod _ _ 26 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 27 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:nmod 28 after after ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 27 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:nmod|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **move in** | present | the biggest crab | | | | | like families | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **take** | present | the next | shell's old shell | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Theme | | 3 | **move** | gerund | families *not said here* | one after another | | bigger houses | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into house=Trajectory | 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:330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs.lesson:6`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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