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title: Real life: putting your hand in a basin does make the water rise, be… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real life: putting your hand in a basin does make the water rise, because your hand pushes water out of the way; but that is not what makes real tides, which come mostly from the Moon's pull. Who acts: putting, water, hand, that. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with t
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# Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2: Pau Amma loses his shell, sentence 31

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Real life: putting your hand in a basin does make the water rise, because your hand pushes water out of the way; but that is not what makes real tides, which come mostly from the Moon's pull.

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**Who acts:** putting, water, hand, that, real tides, Moon · **What happens:** put, make, rise, push, not be, come · **To what, where:** hand, basin, water, way, real tides, pull

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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 (putting, water, hand, that), 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:31
# text = Real life: putting your hand in a basin does make the water rise, because your hand pushes water out of the way; but that is not what makes real tides, which come mostly from the Moon's pull.
# 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	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
4	putting	put	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	csubj	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	basin	basin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
16	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	pushes	push	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
20	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	31	nsubj	_	_
31	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
32	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	tides	tide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
36	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
37	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	from	from	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nmod:poss	_	_
41	's	's	PART	POS	_	40	case	_	_
42	pull	pull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | gerund |  | your hand |  | a basin |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in basin=Destination |
| 2 | **make** | present · do-support | putting |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **rise** | infinitive | the water |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **push** | present | your hand | water |  | the way |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent water=Theme out way=Trajectory |
| 5 | **not** **is a** | present | that |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **make** | present |  | real tides |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material tide=Product |
| 7 | **come** | present | real tides |  |  | the Moon's pull |  | mostly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from pull=Initial\_Location |
| 8 | **pull** |  | the Moon |  |  |  |  |  | nom pull «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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.

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