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title: The end-poem is a riddle about steamship companies of 1902: the line… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the S… · tree and pragmatics
description: The end-poem is a riddle about steamship companies of 1902: the lines that sail east past Singapore, like P. and O. and B.I., pass Pau Amma's playground; the Atlantic lines never go there. Who acts: end poem, lines, Atlantic lines. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with
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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 29

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The end-poem is a riddle about steamship companies of 1902: the lines that sail east past Singapore, like P. and O. and B.I., pass Pau Amma's playground; the Atlantic lines never go there.

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**Who acts:** end poem, lines, Atlantic lines · **What happens:** be, sail, pass, not go · **To what, where:** riddle, Singapore, playground

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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 (end poem, lines, Atlantic lines), 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:29
# text = The end-poem is a riddle about steamship companies of 1902: the lines that sail east past Singapore, like P. and O. and B.I., pass Pau Amma's playground; the Atlantic lines never go there.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	riddle	riddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	steamship	steamship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	companies	company	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	1902	1902	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nmod	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	sail	sail	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	east	east	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	past	past	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Singapore	Singapore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	P.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	O	O	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	B.I	B.I	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	pass	pass	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
32	Pau	Pau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	_
33	Amma	Amma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	flat	_	_
34	's	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
35	playground	playground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
40	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
41	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
42	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	41	advmod	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the end poem | a riddle |  |  |  | about steamship companies of 1902 | tree rules |
| 2 | **sail** | present | the lines like P. and O and B.I |  |  | Singapore |  | east *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent past singapore=Trajectory |
| 3 | **pass** | infinitive | the lines like P. and O and B.I | Pau's playground |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme playground=Trajectory |
| 4 | **not** **go** | present | the Atlantic lines |  |  | there |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:29`.

**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): R7-rel-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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