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title: Pau Amma: «Once a day and once a night I go out to look for my food. — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Pau Amma: «Once a day and once a night I go out to look for my food. Who acts: 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 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2: Pau Amma loses his shell, sentence 16

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Pau Amma: «Once a day and once a night I go out to look for my food.

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**Who acts:** Pau Amma · **What happens:** go out, look

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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 (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:16
# text = Pau Amma: «Once a day and once a night I go out to look for my food.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Pau	Pau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Amma	Amma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
5	Once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	11	advmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	out	out	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** *in a quote* | present | Pau Amma |  |  |  | day | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **look** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Pau Amma *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for my food | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for food=Theme |

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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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**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): R6-punct-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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