--- title: He snaps them happily: now he can eat nuts, crack shells, dig holes,… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the S… · tree and pragmatics description: He snaps them happily: now he can eat nuts, crack shells, dig holes, climb trees, breathe in dry air and hide under any stone. Who acts: Pau. 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 o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/92-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [Just So Stories, The Crab that Played…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/92-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea/) / 4 # Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3: the Moon pulls the sea, and how tides really work, sentence 4 He snaps them happily: now he can eat nuts, crack shells, dig holes, climb trees, breathe in dry air and hide under any stone. **Who acts:** Pau · **What happens:** snap, eat, crack, dig, climb, breathe · **To what, where:** scissors, nuts, shells, holes, trees, dry air 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 (Pau), 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:4 # text = He snaps them happily: now he can eat nuts, crack shells, dig holes, climb trees, breathe in dry air and hide under any stone. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 snaps snap VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 happily happily ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 6 now now ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 10 nuts nut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 crack crack VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 13 shells shell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 15 dig dig VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 16 holes hole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 climb climb VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 19 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 breathe breathe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=21:conj 27 under under ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 29 det _ _ 29 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **snap** | present | Pau | scissors | | | | happily *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme | | 2 | **eat** | can | Pau | nuts | | | now | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Patient | | 3 | **crack** | infinitive | Pau *not said here* | shells | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shell=Theme | | 4 | **dig** | infinitive | Pau *not said here* | holes | | | | | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=Theme | | 5 | **climb** | infinitive | Pau *not said here* | trees | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tree=Theme | | 6 | **breathe** | infinitive | Pau *not said here* | | | dry air | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **hide** | infinitive | Pau *not said here* | | | any stone | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under stone=Location | 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. **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:4`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories, The Crab that Played…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/92-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea/3/) - next →: [Just So Stories, The Crab that Played…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/92-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/92-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea/)