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title: Soft Pau Amma cannot leave Pusat Tasek, because sharks and dogfish w… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Soft Pau Amma cannot leave Pusat Tasek, because sharks and dogfish would eat him. Who acts: Soft, sharks. 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 prag
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# Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2: Pau Amma loses his shell, sentence 24

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Soft Pau Amma cannot leave Pusat Tasek, because sharks and dogfish would eat him.

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**Who acts:** Soft, sharks · **What happens:** not leave, eat · **To what, where:** Pusat

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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 (Soft, sharks), 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:24
# text = Soft Pau Amma cannot leave Pusat Tasek, because sharks and dogfish would eat him.
# 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	Soft	Soft	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	Pau	Pau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Amma	Amma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	Pusat	Pusat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	Tasek	Tasek	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	sharks	shark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	dogfish	dogfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **not** **leave** | can | Soft | Pusat |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pusat=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | would | sharks and dogfish | Pusat |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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:24`.

**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/).

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