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title: Real life: tides ARE made by the Moon, by its gravity, its pull, tog… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real life: tides ARE made by the Moon, by its gravity, its pull, together with a smaller pull from the Sun; Kipling's fairy-tale reason has a true heart. Who acts: Moon, tale reason, life. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3: the Moon pulls the sea, a
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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 30

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Real life: tides ARE made by the Moon, by its gravity, its pull, together with a smaller pull from the Sun; Kipling's fairy-tale reason has a true heart.

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**Who acts:** Moon, tale reason, life · **What happens:** make, have, pull · **To what, where:** tides, true heart

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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, tale reason, life), 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:30
# text = Real life: tides ARE made by the Moon, by its gravity, its pull, together with a smaller pull from the Sun; Kipling's fairy-tale reason has a true heart.
# 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 ×1
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
4	tides	tide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	ARE	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	gravity	gravity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	pull	pull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	together	together	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
22	pull	pull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
27	Kipling	kipling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	_
28	's	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	_
31	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · passive | the Moon | tides |  |  |  | by life's gravity and life's pull; together *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product |
| 2 | **have** | present | Kipling's tale reason | a true heart |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient |
| 3 | **pull** |  | life |  |  |  |  |  | nom pull «act transitive»: poss=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:30`.

**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 ×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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