--- title: Real life: crabs have their skeleton on the outside; to grow, they c… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the S… · tree and pragmatics description: Real life: crabs have their skeleton on the outside; to grow, they climb out of the old shell (this is called moulting) and stay soft for a few days until the new one hardens. Who acts: crabs, land, new one. 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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 (crabs, land, new one), 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:27 # text = Real life: crabs have their skeleton on the outside; to grow, they climb out of the old shell (this is called moulting) and stay soft for a few days until the new one hardens. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 4 crabs crab NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 skeleton skeleton NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 outside outside NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 climb climb VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 17 out out ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 22 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 25 punct _ _ 23 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advcl 26 moulting moulting NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 xcomp _ _ 27 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 30 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 xcomp _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:obl 35 until until SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 hardens harden VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:advcl 40 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | crabs | Real life | | the outside | | | tree rules | | 2 | **grow** | to-infinitive | land *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **climb** | present | land | | | the old shell | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out shell=Trajectory | | 4 | **call** | present · passive | | this | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 5 | **stay** | infinitive | land *not said here* | | | | day | soft *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **harden** | present | the new one | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:27`. **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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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. 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