The beach and the sea, sentence 14
Rips often look like a calmer, darker gap where fewer waves break.
Who acts: Rips, fewer waves · What happens: look, break
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 (Rips, fewer waves), 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 | Rips | rip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 look | nsubj |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 3 look | advmod |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 gap | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 gap | det |
| 6 | calmer | calm | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 gap | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 calmer | punct |
| 8 | darker | dark | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 gap | amod |
| 9 | gap | gap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 look | obl |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 break | advmod |
| 11 | fewer | few | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 waves | amod |
| 12 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 break | nsubj |
| 13 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 gap | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | Rips | like a calmer darker gap; often property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | break | present | fewer waves | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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:14.
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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