--- title: The girl describes Pau Amma: «He was round and he was flat; and his… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the S… · tree and pragmatics description: 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.» Who acts: girl, Amma, eyes. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, Amma, eyes), 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:12 # text = 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.» # 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): no change 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 describes describe VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 Pau Pau PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 Amma Amma PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 7 « « PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 8 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 10 round round ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 advmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 20 upon upon ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 stalks stalk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 26 sideways sideway ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 like like ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 obl _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 armour armour NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 upon upon ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 41 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **describe** | present | the girl | Pau Amma | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent amma=Theme | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | Amma | | | | | flat *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **grow** *in a quote* | past | Amma's eyes | | | stalks | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon stalk=Location | | 4 | **walk** *in a quote* | past | Amma | | | | | like this; sideway *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **cover** *in a quote* | past · passive | | Amma | | | | with strong armour upon Amma's back | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with armour=Theme | 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. **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:12`. **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/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories, The Crab that Played…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell/11/) - next →: [Just So Stories, The Crab that Played…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell/)