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title: The Magician, the Man and the girl each offer a gift, but Pau Amma w… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the S… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Magician, the Man and the girl each offer a gift, but Pau Amma will not choose until he has his shell again. Who acts: Magician, Pau Amma. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2: Pau Amma loses his shell» of the books course of Mova's primary school 
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# Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2: Pau Amma loses his shell, sentence 11

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The Magician, the Man and the girl each offer a gift, but Pau Amma will not choose until he has his shell again.

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**Who acts:** Magician, Pau Amma · **What happens:** offer, not choose, have · **To what, where:** gift, shell

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2: Pau Amma loses his shell» 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 (Magician, Pau Amma), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:091-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell.lesson:11
# text = The Magician, the Man and the girl each offer a gift, but Pau Amma will not choose until he has his shell again.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 091-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Magician	magician	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	advmod	_	_
10	offer	offer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	Pau	Pau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Amma	Amma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
20	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	again	again	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **offer** | present | the Magician and the Man and the girl | a gift |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent gift=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **choose** | future | Pau Amma |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | present | Magician | Magician's shell |  |  | again |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Patient |

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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:091-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell.lesson:11`.

**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): R2-punct-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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