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title: The sea runs out so fast that the canoe is pulled past Selangor, Mal… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the S… · tree and pragmatics
description: The sea runs out so fast that the canoe is pulled past Selangor, Malacca and Singapore to the island of Bintang. Who acts: sea. 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 pr
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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 7

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The sea runs out so fast that the canoe is pulled past Selangor, Malacca and Singapore to the island of Bintang.

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**Who acts:** sea · **What happens:** run out, pull · **To what, where:** canoe, island

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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 (sea), 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:7
# text = The sea runs out so fast that the canoe is pulled past Selangor, Malacca and Singapore to the island of Bintang.
# 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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
12	past	past	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Selangor	Selangor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Malacca	Malacca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	Singapore	Singapore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Bintang	Bintang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run out** | present | the sea |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pull** | present · passive |  | the canoe |  | the island of Bintang |  | past Selangor and Malacca and Singapore | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to island=Destination |

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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:7`.

**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): no change. **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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