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title: Kun?» «Payah kun,» says the Magician, laughing, and the tiny crab sc… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Kun?» «Payah kun,» says the Magician, laughing, and the tiny crab scuttles away. Who acts: Kun, tiny crab. 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 with its de
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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 6

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Kun?» «Payah kun,» says the Magician, laughing, and the tiny crab scuttles away.

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**Who acts:** Kun, tiny crab · **What happens:** say, laugh, scuttle away · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Kun, tiny 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:6
# text = Kun?» «Payah kun,» says the Magician, laughing, and the tiny crab scuttles away.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Kun	Kun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
5	Payah	Payah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	kun	kun	X	NN	_	3	flat	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
9	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	advcl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	crab	crab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	scuttles	scuttle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
20	away	away	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Kun |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **laugh** *in a quote* | gerund | Kun *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **scuttle away** *in a quote* | present | the tiny crab |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «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:6`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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/).

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