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title: Real life: young crabs moult many times a year and older ones less o… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real life: young crabs moult many times a year and older ones less often, some about once a year; the coconut crab of the Indian and Pacific Ocean islands really climbs palm-trees and cracks coconuts with its huge claws. Who acts: young crabs, coconut crab. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories,
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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 34

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Real life: young crabs moult many times a year and older ones less often, some about once a year; the coconut crab of the Indian and Pacific Ocean islands really climbs palm-trees and cracks coconuts with its huge claws.

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**Who acts:** young crabs, coconut crab · **What happens:** moult, climb, crack · **To what, where:** palm trees, coconuts

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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 (young crabs, coconut crab), 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:34
# text = Real life: young crabs moult many times a year and older ones less often, some about once a year; the coconut crab of the Indian and Pacific Ocean islands really climbs palm-trees and cracks coconuts with its huge claws.
# 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	:	_	2	punct	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	crabs	crab	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	moult	moult	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:unmarked	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
13	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
14	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
15	often	often	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	conj	_	_
18	about	about	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
19	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	21	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	coconut	coconut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	crab	crab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
28	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
33	really	really	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	climbs	climb	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
35	palm	palm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	_
37	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	cracks	crack	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
40	coconuts	coconut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	_
41	with	with	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
43	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	claws	claw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	_
45	.	.	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 | **moult** | present | young crabs |  |  |  | time |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **climb** | present | the coconut crab of the Indian Ocean islands | palm trees |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tree=Theme |
| 3 | **crack** | present | the coconut crab of the Indian Ocean islands *not said here* | coconuts |  |  |  | with life's huge claws | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent coconut=Patient with claw=Instrument |

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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:34`.

**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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