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title: When the Magician touches Pau Amma he «settled down», and «all the S… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the S… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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». Who acts: Magician, Sea, water, you. 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 
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# Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2: Pau Amma loses his shell, sentence 15

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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».

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**Who acts:** Magician, Sea, water, you · **What happens:** touch, settle down, rise up, rise, put · **To what, where:** Pau, basin, hand, water

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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, Sea, water, you), 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:15
# text = 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».
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Magician	magician	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	touches	touch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	Pau	Pau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	Amma	Amma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	settled	settle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
10	down	down	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc
14	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
15	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
21	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:compound
22	rises	rise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	basin	basin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:nmod
26	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advcl
29	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
33	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **touch** | present | the Magician | Pau |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pau=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **settle down** *in a quote* | past | Magician |  |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **rise up** *in a quote* | past | all Sea |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **rise** *in a quote* | present | water |  |  | a basin |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in basin=Location |
| 5 | **put** *in a quote* | past | you | your hand |  | water |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal |

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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:15`.

**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, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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