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title: Real life: the coco de mer, a huge double nut from the Seychelles is… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real life: the coco de mer, a huge double nut from the Seychelles islands, was once found floating in the Indian Ocean; sailors who never saw the tree believed it grew under the sea, like Pauh Janggi. Who acts: coco de, sailors, de. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Crab that Played wit
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# Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2: Pau Amma loses his shell, sentence 30

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Real life: the coco de mer, a huge double nut from the Seychelles islands, was once found floating in the Indian Ocean; sailors who never saw the tree believed it grew under the sea, like Pauh Janggi.

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**Who acts:** coco de, sailors, de · **What happens:** find, float, not see, believe, grow · **To what, where:** coco de, Indian Ocean, tree, sea · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (coco de, sailors, de), 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:30
# text = Real life: the coco de mer, a huge double nut from the Seychelles islands, was once found floating in the Indian Ocean; sailors who never saw the tree believed it grew under the sea, like Pauh Janggi.
# 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	dep	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	coco	Coco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	mer	mer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	nut	nut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:det
15	Seychelles	Seychelles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNPS:Number=Plur
16	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
19	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	20	advmod	_	_
20	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
21	floating	float	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	xcomp	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	sailors	sailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
28	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
29	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	believed	believe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	ccomp	_	_
36	under	under	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	like	like	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	Pauh	Pauh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	Janggi	Janggi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past · passive |  | the coco de |  |  |  | once *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **float** | gerund | the coco de *not said here* |  |  | the Indian Ocean |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ocean=Trajectory |
| 3 | **not** **see** | past | sailors | the tree |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus |
| 4 | **believe** | past | sailors |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **grow** | past | de |  |  | the sea |  | like Pauh Janggi | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under sea=Location |

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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:30`.

**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 ×1, R6-punct-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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