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title: The Perak river, Selangor, Malacca, Singapore and Bintang are real p… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the S… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Perak river, Selangor, Malacca, Singapore and Bintang are real places in and near Malaysia. Who acts: Perak river. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1: the Eldest Magician and the sea that will not behave» of the books course of Mova's primary sch
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# Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1: the Eldest Magician and the sea that will not behave, sentence 18

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The Perak river, Selangor, Malacca, Singapore and Bintang are real places in and near Malaysia.

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**Who acts:** Perak river · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** real places

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1: the Eldest Magician and the sea that will not behave» 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 (Perak river), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:090-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician.lesson:18
# text = The Perak river, Selangor, Malacca, Singapore and Bintang are real places in and near Malaysia.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 090-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Perak	Perak	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Selangor	Selangor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Malacca	Malacca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Singapore	Singapore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Bintang	Bintang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
15	in	in	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	near	near	ADP	IN	_	15	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:case
18	Malaysia	Malaysia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Perak river and Selangor and Malacca and Singapore and Bintang | real places and Malaysia |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:books:090-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician.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 ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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