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title: I will take all the gifts.» The Magician uses «all five fingers of h… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the S… · tree and pragmatics
description: I will take all the gifts.» The Magician uses «all five fingers of his right hand», and Pau Amma becomes «a little green crab», so tiny that he could hide under the shadow of a dry leaf. Who acts: I, Magician, Pau. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3:
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# Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3: the Moon pulls the sea, and how tides really work, sentence 14

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I will take all the gifts.» The Magician uses «all five fingers of his right hand», and Pau Amma becomes «a little green crab», so tiny that he could hide under the shadow of a dry leaf.

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**Who acts:** I, Magician, Pau · **What happens:** take, use, become, hide, shadow · **To what, where:** gifts, five fingers, little green crab, shadow, dry leaf · **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 3: the Moon pulls the sea, and how tides really work» 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 (I, Magician, Pau), 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:14
# text = I will take all the gifts.» The Magician uses «all five fingers of his right hand», and Pau Amma becomes «a little green crab», so tiny that he could hide under the shadow of a dry leaf.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
9	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:det:predet|HaikuPos=DET:PDT:PronType=Tot
14	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nmod
20	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	Pau	Pau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	Amma	Amma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	_
25	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
26	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	crab	crab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	xcomp	_	_
31	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	appos	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	advcl	_	_
39	under	under	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | future | I | all gifts |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent gift=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **use** *in a quote* | present | the Magician | all five fingers of Pau's right hand |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient |
| 3 | **become** *in a quote* | present | Pau | a little green crab |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **hide** *in a quote* | could | Pau |  |  | the shadow of a dry leaf |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under shadow=Location |
| 5 | **shadow** *in a quote* |  |  | a dry leaf |  |  |  |  | nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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:092-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea.lesson:14`.

**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 ×2, 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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