--- title: The Magician reaches down and touches Pau Amma's back, and the whole… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the S… · tree and pragmatics description: The Magician reaches down and touches Pau Amma's back, and the whole sea rises, as water rises in a basin when you put your hand in. Who acts: Magician, whole sea, water, you. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [Just So Stories, The Crab that Played…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell/) / 4 # Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2: Pau Amma loses his shell, sentence 4 The Magician reaches down and touches Pau Amma's back, and the whole sea rises, as water rises in a basin when you put your hand in. **Who acts:** Magician, whole sea, water, you · **What happens:** reach down, touch, rise, put in · **To what, where:** back, basin, hand 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 (Magician, whole sea, water, you), 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:4 # text = The Magician reaches down and touches Pau Amma's back, and the whole sea rises, as water rises in a basin when you put your hand in. # 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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Magician magician NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 reaches reach VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 down down ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 touches touch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 7 Pau Pau PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ _ 8 Amma Amma PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 flat _ _ 9 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 10 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:obj|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:det 14 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:amod 15 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:compound 16 rises rise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 as as SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:case 19 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 rises rise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 basin basin NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 when when SCONJ WRB _ 26 mark _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 27 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 in in ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reach down** | present | the Magician | | | | | down *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **touch** | present | the Magician *not said here* | Pau's back | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme back=Co-Theme | | 3 | **rise** | present | the whole sea | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **rise** | present | water | | | a basin | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in basin=Location | | 5 | **put in** | past | you | your hand | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal | 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:4`. **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 ×3, 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. 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