--- title: Pau Amma's babies hide under stones, wave their scissors, climb palm… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the S… · tree and pragmatics description: Pau Amma's babies hide under stones, wave their scissors, climb palm-trees for coconuts and go soft once a year, and they nip you if you take them home in a pickle-bottle, which serves you right. Who acts: babies, you, pickle bottle. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (babies, you, pickle bottle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:092-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea.lesson:11 # text = Pau Amma's babies hide under stones, wave their scissors, climb palm-trees for coconuts and go soft once a year, and they nip you if you take them home in a pickle-bottle, which serves you right. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 092-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea.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): R3-conj-first ×1 1 Pau Pau PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 2 Amma Amma PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 4 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 hide hide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 under under ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 wave wave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 scissors scissors NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 climb climb VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 14 palm palm NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ _ 16 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 coconuts coconut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 21 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 22 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 20 advmod _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl:unmarked _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 nip nip VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 if if SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 33 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 home home ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 37 pickle pickle NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ _ 39 bottle bottle NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 42 nsubj _ _ 42 serves serve VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 acl:relcl _ _ 43 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 42 obj _ _ 44 right right ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hide** | present | Pau's babies | | | stones | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under stone=Location | | 2 | **wave** | present | Pau's babies *not said here* | babies's scissors | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scissors=Patient | | 3 | **climb** | present | Pau's babies *not said here* | palm trees | | | | for coconuts | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tree=Theme | | 4 | **go** | present | Pau's babies *not said here* | | | | | once, soft *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **nip** | present | babies *= baby* | you | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location you=Theme | | 6 | **take** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | babies *= baby* | | a pickle bottle | | home *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Value in bottle=Location | | 7 | **serve** | present | a pickle bottle | you | | | | right *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Attribute | 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:092-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea.lesson:11`. **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): R3-conj-first ×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/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories, The Crab that Played…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/92-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea/10/) - next →: [Just So Stories, The Crab that Played…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/92-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/92-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea/)