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title: Real life: spring tides, the biggest, come at full moon and new moon… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real life: spring tides, the biggest, come at full moon and new moon, when the Sun and Moon pull in a line; neap tides, the smallest, come at half moon. Who acts: Sun, neap tides. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3: the Moon pulls the sea, and how ti
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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 32

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Real life: spring tides, the biggest, come at full moon and new moon, when the Sun and Moon pull in a line; neap tides, the smallest, come at half moon.

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**Who acts:** Sun, neap tides · **What happens:** come, pull · **To what, where:** full moon, line, spring tides, half moon

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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 (Sun, neap tides), 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:32
# text = Real life: spring tides, the biggest, come at full moon and new moon, when the Sun and Moon pull in a line; neap tides, the smallest, come at half moon.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
4	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	tides	tide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	pull	pull	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	neap	neap	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	tides	tide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	smallest	small	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	conj	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
35	at	at	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	half	half	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	37	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac
37	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | infinitive |  |  |  | full moon and new moon |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at moon=Location |
| 2 | **pull** | present | the Sun and Moon |  |  | a line |  |  | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | infinitive | neap tides | spring tides *not said here* |  | half moon |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tide=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:32`.

**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, 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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