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title: The Magician makes a Magic with all five fingers of his right hand,… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the S… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Magician makes a Magic with all five fingers of his right hand, and Pau Amma shrinks into a little green crab beside the canoe, crying «Give me the scissors!» Who acts: Magician, Pau. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3: the Moon pulls the sea, an
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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 2

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The Magician makes a Magic with all five fingers of his right hand, and Pau Amma shrinks into a little green crab beside the canoe, crying «Give me the scissors!»

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**Who acts:** Magician, Pau · **What happens:** make, shrink, cry, give · **To what, where:** Magic, scissors, Pau · **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 (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:2
# text = The Magician makes a Magic with all five fingers of his right hand, and Pau Amma shrinks into a little green crab beside the canoe, crying «Give me the scissors!»
# 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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
8	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	Pau	Pau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	Amma	Amma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
18	shrinks	shrink	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	crab	crab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj
29	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
30	Give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	ccomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:ccomp
31	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	iobj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	scissors	scissors	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
34	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
35	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=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 | **make** | present | the Magician | a Magic |  |  |  | with all five fingers of Pau's right hand | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset magic=Product |
| 2 | **shrink** | present | Pau |  |  |  |  | into a little green crab beside the canoe *result* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent into crab=Result |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | Pau *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the scissors | Pau |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient scissors=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:092-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea.lesson:2`.

**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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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