--- title: A crab's skeleton is on the outside; to grow it climbs out of its ol… — The real animals of the Just So Stories: the wha… · tree and pragmatics description: A crab's skeleton is on the outside; to grow it climbs out of its old shell, which is called moulting, and it hides for a few days while the new shell hardens. Who acts: skeleton, new shell. 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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 (skeleton, new shell), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab.lesson:18 # text = A crab's skeleton is on the outside; to grow it climbs out of its old shell, which is called moulting, and it hides for a few days while the new shell hardens. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab.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 ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 crab crab NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 skeleton skeleton NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 outside outside NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 climbs climb VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 14 out out ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl:relcl _ _ 23 moulting moulting NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 xcomp _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 hides hide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 32 while while SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:det 34 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:amod 35 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:compound 36 hardens harden VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 | **is** | present | a crab's skeleton | | | the outside | | | tree rules | | 2 | **grow** | to-infinitive | skeleton *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **climb** | present | skeleton | | | skeleton's old shell | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out shell=Trajectory | | 4 | **call** | present · passive | | skeleton's old shell | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 5 | **hide** | present | skeleton | | | | day | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **harden** | present | the new shell | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab.lesson:18`. **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 ×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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