Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3: the Moon pulls the sea, and how tides really work, sentence 31
Real life: most coasts get two high tides and two low tides in about 25 hours, so the tide comes about an hour later each day.
Who acts: most coasts, tide · What happens: get, come about · To what, where: two high tides
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 (most coasts, tide), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 life | amod |
| 2 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 4 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 coasts | amod |
| 5 | coasts | coast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 get | nsubj |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 life | parataxis |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 tides | nummod |
| 8 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tides | amod |
| 9 | tides | tide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 get | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 tides | cc |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 tides | nummod |
| 12 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tides | amod |
| 13 | tides | tide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tides | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 hours | case |
| 15 | about | about | ADV | _ | 16 25 | advmod |
| 16 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 hours | nummod |
| 17 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 get | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 comes | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 comes | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 tide | det |
| 21 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 comes | nsubj |
| 22 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | advcl |
| 23 | about | about | ADV | _ | 25 hour | advmod |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 hour | det |
| 25 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 comes | obl |
| 26 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 28 day | advmod |
| 27 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 day | det |
| 28 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hour | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 life | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | most coasts | two high tides and two low tides | hour | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tide=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | come about | present | the tide | hour | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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, 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:31.
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): 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.
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