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title: Kipling: «From that day to this the Moon has always pulled the sea u… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Kipling: «From that day to this the Moon has always pulled the sea up and down and made what we call the tides»; too hard makes spring tides, too softly makes neap tides. Who acts: Moon, we, hard. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3: the Moon pulls th
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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 26

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Kipling: «From that day to this the Moon has always pulled the sea up and down and made what we call the tides»; too hard makes spring tides, too softly makes neap tides.

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**Who acts:** Moon, we, hard · **What happens:** pull, make, call · **To what, where:** sea, tides, spring tides, neap tides · **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 (Moon, we, hard), 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:26
# text = Kipling: «From that day to this the Moon has always pulled the sea up and down and made what we call the tides»; too hard makes spring tides, too softly makes neap tides.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Kipling	kipling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	dep	_	_
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
4	From	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	13	advmod	_	_
13	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	up	up	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	down	down	ADV	RB	_	16	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
21	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	23	obj	_	_
22	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	tides	tide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
26	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	too	too	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	nsubj	_	_
30	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj
31	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	tides	tide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=30:punct
34	too	too	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:nsubj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
36	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
37	neap	neap	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	tides	tide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **pull** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the Moon | the sea |  |  | day | always *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** *in a quote* | participle | the Moon *not said here* | the tides |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tide=Product |
| 3 | **call** *in a quote* | present | we | the tides |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |
| 4 | **make** | present | hard | spring tides |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tide=Product |
| 5 | **make** | present | hard *not said here* | neap tides |  |  |  | softly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tide=Product |

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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:26`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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