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title: Real life: the Himalayas were pushed up because the land of India ha… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real life: the Himalayas were pushed up because the land of India has been moving north and crashing into Asia for about 50 million years; they are still rising a little every year. Who acts: land, Himalayas. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1: the E
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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 20

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Real life: the Himalayas were pushed up because the land of India has been moving north and crashing into Asia for about 50 million years; they are still rising a little every year.

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**Who acts:** land, Himalayas · **What happens:** push up, move, crash, rise · **To what, where:** Himalayas, Asia, little

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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 (land, Himalayas), 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:20
# text = Real life: the Himalayas were pushed up because the land of India has been moving north and crashing into Asia for about 50 million years; they are still rising a little every year.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Himalayas	Himalayas	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	pushed	push	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	aux	_	_
16	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
17	north	north	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=16:cc
19	crashing	crash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	about	about	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	compound	_	_
25	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	still	still	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	parataxis	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:obl:unmarked|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
34	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	det	_	_
35	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl:unmarked	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **push up** | past · passive |  | the Himalayas |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **move** | present · perfect · progressive | the land of India |  |  |  |  | north *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **crash** | gerund | the land of India *not said here* |  |  |  | year | into Asia *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into asia=Result |
| 4 | **rise** | present · progressive | Himalayas | a little |  |  | still; year |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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): R1-cc-next ×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.

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

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