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title: Pau Amma's babies hate being «taken out of their little Pusat Taseks… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Pau Amma's babies hate being «taken out of their little Pusat Taseks and brought home in pickle-bottles. Who acts: babies. 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 sc
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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 27

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Pau Amma's babies hate being «taken out of their little Pusat Taseks and brought home in pickle-bottles.

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**Who acts:** babies · **What happens:** hate, take out, bring · **To what, where:** little Pusat Taseks, pickle bottles

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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 (babies), 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:27
# text = Pau Amma's babies hate being «taken out of their little Pusat Taseks and brought home in pickle-bottles.
# 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): no change
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	hate	hate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	aux:pass	_	_
7	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	xcomp	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	Pusat	Pusat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Taseks	Taseks	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
17	home	home	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	pickle	pickle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	_
21	bottles	bottle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hate** | present | Pau's babies |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **take out** *not said to happen, in a quote* | gerund · passive | Pau's babies *not said here* | babies's little Pusat Taseks |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: taseks=Theme |
| 3 | **bring** *in a quote* | participle | Pau's babies *not said here* |  |  | pickle bottles |  | home *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |

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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:27`.

**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): no change. **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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