--- title: Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2: Pau Amma loses his shell — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2: Pau Amma loses his shell», a lesson of the books course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: The little girl-daughter speaks up: at the Very Beginning she saw one beast slip away i --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / Just So Stories, The Crab that Played… # Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2: Pau Amma loses his shell Lesson 91 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 29 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell/0/) — The little girl-daughter speaks up: at the Very Beginning she saw one beast slip away into the sea before he was taught his play. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell/1/) — She describes him: round and flat, eyes on stalks, walking sideways, with strong armour on his back. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell/2/) — «Now I know where Pau Amma went,» says the Magician. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell/3/) — The sea carries the canoe to Pusat Tasek, the Heart of the Sea, a great hollow where the Wonderful Tree grows. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell/4/) — The Magician reaches down and touches Pau Amma's back, and the whole sea rises, as water rises in a basin when you put your hand in. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell/5/) — Pau Amma says he goes out to feed once a day and once a night, and the sea pours in and out after him. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell/6/) — Hearing how important he is, Pau Amma laughs and threatens to go out seven times a day. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell/7/) — He rises up: a King Crab so big that his shell touches Sarawak on one side and Pahang on the other. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell/8/) — But when the Magician asks for a Magic, Pau Amma can only stir up the sea. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell/9/) — The Magician makes a Magic with just the little finger of his left hand, and Pau Amma's shell falls off like a husk off a coconut. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell/10/) — Soft and ashamed, he begs for his shell back. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell/11/) — The Magician, the Man and the girl each offer a gift, but Pau Amma will not choose until he has his shell again. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell/12/) — The girl describes Pau Amma: «He was round and he was flat; and his eyes grew upon stalks; and he walked sideways like this; and he was covered with strong armour upon his back.» - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell/14/) — Pusat Tasek is «the Heart of the Sea», a great hollow leading to the heart of the world; there grows the Wonderful Tree, Pauh Janggi, with «magic twin nuts». - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell/15/) — When the Magician touches Pau Amma he «settled down», and «all the Sea rose up as water rises in a basin when you put your hand into it». - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell/16/) — Pau Amma: «Once a day and once a night I go out to look for my food. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell/17/) — Once a day and once a night I return. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell/18/) — Leave me alone.» - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell/19/) — When Pau Amma goes out, the beaches are left bare, little fish die and Raja Moyang Kaban, King of the Elephants, gets muddy legs; when he comes back, islands are drowned, the Man's house floods and Raja Abdullah, King of the Crocodiles, gets a mouthful of salt water. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell/20/) — Pau Amma: «I did not know I was so important. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell/21/) — Henceforward I will go out seven times a day.» (Henceforward = from now on.) - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell/22/) — Pau Amma is a King Crab, so big that «One side of his great shell touched the beach at Sarawak; the other touched the beach at Pahang», and he was taller than the smoke of three volcanoes. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell/23/) — The girl picks out the soft eyes of the twin nut «with her little golden scissors». - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell/24/) — Soft Pau Amma cannot leave Pusat Tasek, because sharks and dogfish would eat him. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell/25/) — The Magician will not simply give the shell back, because Pau Amma might grow big and proud again and forget his promise. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell/26/) — The gifts: the Magician offers to make every stone, hole and bunch of weed a safe Pusat Tasek; the Man offers a home on land and in the sea; the girl offers her scissors, to eat coconuts, dig holes and climb trees. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell/27/) — Real life: crabs have their skeleton on the outside; to grow, they climb out of the old shell (this is called moulting) and stay soft for a few days until the new one hardens. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell/30/) — Real life: the coco de mer, a huge double nut from the Seychelles islands, was once found floating in the Indian Ocean; sailors who never saw the tree believed it grew under the sea, like Pauh Janggi. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell/31/) — Real life: putting your hand in a basin does make the water rise, because your hand pushes water out of the way; but that is not what makes real tides, which come mostly from the Moon's pull. - ← previous: [Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1: the Eldest Magician and the sea that will not behave](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician/) - next →: [Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3: the Moon pulls the sea, and how tides really work](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/92-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/)