--- title: That is why they nip you with their scissors, and it serves you righ… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the S… · tree and pragmatics description: That is why they nip you with their scissors, and it serves you right!» Kipling also says it isn't fair to hunt Pau Amma's babies just because of their father's old rudeness. Who acts: That, babies, hard, Kipling. 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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 (That, babies, hard, Kipling), 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:28 # text = That is why they nip you with their scissors, and it serves you right!» Kipling also says it isn't fair to hunt Pau Amma's babies just because of their father's old rudeness. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 nip nip VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 scissors scissors NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:expl 13 serves serve VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 right right ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 16 ! ! PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ 17 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 18 Kipling Kipling PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 19 also also ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:nsubj 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 ccomp _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 hunt hunt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 csubj _ _ 27 Pau Pau PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod:poss _ _ 28 Amma Amma PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 flat _ _ 29 's 's PART POS _ 27 case _ _ 30 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 31 just just ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 32 because because ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 38 case _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 32 fixed _ _ 34 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod:poss _ _ 36 's 's PART POS _ 35 case _ _ 37 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 rudeness rudeness NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | That | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **nip** | present | babies *= baby* | you | | | | with babies's scissors | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location you=Theme | | 3 | **serve** | present | hard | you | | | | right *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Attribute | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Kipling | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | fair *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **hunt** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | Pau's babies | | | | because babies's father's old rudeness | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme | 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:28`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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. 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