--- title: Pau Amma is a King Crab, so big that «One side of his great shell to… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the S… · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: Pau, One side, other, three volcanoes. 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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 (Pau, One side, other, three volcanoes), 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:22 # text = 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. # 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 6 nsubj _ _ 2 Amma Amma PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 King king NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 Crab crab NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 so so ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 10 that that SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 11 « « PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 12 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 18 touched touch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 Sarawak Sarawak PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 nsubj _ _ 26 touched touch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 at at ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 Pahang Pahang PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 31 » » PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 36 taller tall ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 conj _ _ 37 than than ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 smoke smoke NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 42 nummod _ _ 42 volcanoes volcano NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nmod _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Pau | a King Crab | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **touch** *in a quote* | past | One side of Pau's great shell | the beach | | Sarawak | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme beach=Co-Theme | | 3 | **touch** *in a quote* | past | the other | the beach | | Pahang | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme beach=Co-Theme | | 4 | **is** | past | Pau | | | | | than the smoke of three volcanoes; tall *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **smoke** | | three volcanoes | | | | | | nom smoke «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent | 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:22`. **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/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories, The Crab that Played…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell/21/) - next →: [Just So Stories, The Crab that Played…, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell/23/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell/)