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title: Real life: most coasts get two high tides and two low tides in about… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real life: most coasts get two high tides and two low tides in about 25 hours, so the tide comes about an hour later each day. Who acts: most coasts, tide. 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 
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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 31

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Real life: most coasts get two high tides and two low tides in about 25 hours, so the tide comes about an hour later each day.

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**Who acts:** most coasts, tide · **What happens:** get, come about · **To what, where:** two high tides

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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 (most coasts, tide), 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:31
# text = Real life: most coasts get two high tides and two low tides in about 25 hours, so the tide comes about an hour later each day.
# 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 ×2
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
4	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	coasts	coast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:appos|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	tides	tide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	tides	tide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	about	about	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	tide	tide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
23	about	about	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	28	advmod	_	_
27	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **get** | present | most coasts | two high tides and two low tides |  |  | hour |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tide=Stimulus |
| 2 | **come about** | present | the tide |  |  |  | hour |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «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:31`.

**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 ×2. **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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