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title: He rises up: a King Crab so big that his shell touches Sarawak on on… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the S… · tree and pragmatics
description: He rises up: a King Crab so big that his shell touches Sarawak on one side and Pahang on the other. Who acts: Pau, shell. 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 with its dependency t
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# Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2: Pau Amma loses his shell, sentence 7

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He rises up: a King Crab so big that his shell touches Sarawak on one side and Pahang on the other.

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**Who acts:** Pau, shell · **What happens:** rise up, touch · **To what, where:** Sarawak

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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 (Pau, shell), 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:7
# text = He rises up: a King Crab so big that his shell touches Sarawak on one side and Pahang on the other.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rises	rise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	King	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Crab	crab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	touches	touch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
14	Sarawak	Sarawak	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Pahang	Pahang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl
23	.	.	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 | **rise up** | present | Pau |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **touch** | present | Pau's shell | Sarawak and Pahang on the other |  |  |  | on one side | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent sarawak=Experiencer on side=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:7`.

**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, 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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