The beach and the sea, sentence 12
A rip current is a narrow, fast flow of water moving away from the shore.
Who acts: rip current, narrow fast flow · What happens: be, move away · To what, where: narrow fast flow, shore
This is a sentence of the lesson «The beach and the sea» 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 (rip current, narrow fast flow), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 current | det |
| 2 | rip | rip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 current | compound |
| 3 | current | current | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 flow | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 flow | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 flow | det |
| 6 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 flow | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 narrow | punct |
| 8 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 flow | amod |
| 9 | flow | flow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 water | case |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 flow | nmod |
| 12 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 flow | acl |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 moving | advmod |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 shore | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 shore | det |
| 16 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 moving | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 flow | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a rip current | a narrow fast flow | of water | tree rules | |||
| 2 | move away | gerund | a narrow fast flow not said here | the shore | away property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from shore=Trajectory |
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:044-the-beach-and-the-sea.lesson:12.
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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