The sea, waves and swimming pools, sentence 1

Waves can knock a child over and roll them along the bottom, and the sea floor can suddenly drop away, so beginners stay in shallow water close to a grown-up.

Who acts: Waves, sea floor, beginners · What happens: knock over, roll, drop away, stay · To what, where: child, Waves, bottom, shallow water

This is a sentence of the lesson «The sea, waves and swimming pools» of the everyday 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 (Waves, sea floor, beginners), 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	Waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 knock	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 knock	aux
3	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 child	det
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knock	obj
6	over	over	ADV	_	3 knock	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 roll	cc
8	roll	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 knock	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 roll	obj
10	along	along	ADP	_	12 bottom	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bottom	det
12	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 roll	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 drop	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 drop	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 floor	det
16	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 floor	compound
17	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 drop	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 drop	aux
19	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	20 drop	advmod
20	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 knock	conj
21	away	away	ADV	_	20 drop	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 stay	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	25 stay	advmod
24	beginners	beginner	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 stay	nsubj
25	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 knock	conj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 water	case
27	shallow	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 water	amod
28	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stay	obl
29	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 water	amod
30	to	to	ADP	_	34 up	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 up	det
32	grown	grown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 up	amod
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 up	punct
34	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 close	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knock	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	knock over	can	Waves	a child		over property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent child=Patient
2	roll	infinitive	Waves not said here	Waves = wave	the bottom		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme along bottom=Trajectory
3	drop away	can	the sea floor			away, suddenly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	stay	present	beginners		shallow water		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=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, 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:everyday:233-sea-and-pools.lesson:1.

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): no change. 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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