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title: The Crab's story names the Perak river, Malacca and Singapore on the… — The map of the Just So Stories: from the North A… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Crab's story names the Perak river, Malacca and Singapore on the Malay Peninsula, by the Strait of Malacca, the short way for ships between the Indian Ocean and the seas of China, and one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world. Who acts: story. A sentence of the lesson «The map of the Just S
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# The map of the Just So Stories: from the North Atlantic to the Limpopo, the Amazon and Surrey, sentence 13

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The Crab's story names the Perak river, Malacca and Singapore on the Malay Peninsula, by the Strait of Malacca, the short way for ships between the Indian Ocean and the seas of China, and one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world.

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**Who acts:** story · **What happens:** name · **To what, where:** Perak river

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The map of the Just So Stories: from the North Atlantic to the Limpopo, the Amazon and Surrey» of the geography 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 (story), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:061-the-map-of-the-just-so-stories-from-the-north-atlantic-to-the-limpopo-and-surrey.lesson:13
# text = The Crab's story names the Perak river, Malacca and Singapore on the Malay Peninsula, by the Strait of Malacca, the short way for ships between the Indian Ocean and the seas of China, and one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 061-the-map-of-the-just-so-stories-from-the-north-atlantic-to-the-limpopo-and-surrey.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, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det
2	Crab	crab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	names	name	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Perak	Perak	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Malacca	Malacca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Singapore	Singapore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=10:conj
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Malay	Malay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Peninsula	Peninsula	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Strait	Strait	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Malacca	Malacca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
29	between	between	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	conj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
43	busiest	busy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	45	amod	_	_
44	shipping	shipping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	lanes	lane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nmod	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **name** | present | the Crab's story | the Perak river and Malacca and Singapore on the Malay Peninsula |  |  |  | by the Strait of Malacca | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=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:geography:061-the-map-of-the-just-so-stories-from-the-north-atlantic-to-the-limpopo-and-surrey.lesson:13`.

**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, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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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