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title: The sea carries the canoe to Pusat Tasek, the Heart of the Sea, a gr… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the S… · tree and pragmatics
description: The sea carries the canoe to Pusat Tasek, the Heart of the Sea, a great hollow where the Wonderful Tree grows. Who acts: sea, Wonderful Tree. 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 w
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# Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2: Pau Amma loses his shell, sentence 3

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The sea carries the canoe to Pusat Tasek, the Heart of the Sea, a great hollow where the Wonderful Tree grows.

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**Who acts:** sea, Wonderful Tree · **What happens:** carry, grow · **To what, where:** canoe, 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 (sea, Wonderful Tree), 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:3
# text = The sea carries the canoe to Pusat Tasek, the Heart of the Sea, a great hollow where the Wonderful Tree grows.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	carries	carry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Pusat	Pusat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	Tasek	Tasek	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Heart	heart	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	hollow	hollow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:appos
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:obl
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Tree	Tree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
23	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | present | the sea | the canoe | Pusat |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent canoe=Theme to pusat=Destination |
| 2 | **grow** | present | the Wonderful Tree |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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:3`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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