The beach and the sea, sentence 15

If a rip takes you, you float, signal for help, or swim parallel to the shore, which means sideways, along the beach.

Who acts: rip, you, shore · What happens: take, float, signal, swim, mean · To what, where: you, shore, sideways

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, you, shore), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 takes	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 rip	det
3	rip	rip	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 takes	nsubj
4	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 float	advcl
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 takes	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 float	punct
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 float	nsubj
8	float	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 signal	punct
10	signal	signal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 float	conj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 help	case
12	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 signal	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 swim	punct
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 swim	cc
15	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 takes	conj
16	parallel	parallel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 swim	advmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 shore	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 shore	det
19	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 swim	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 means	punct
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 means	nsubj
22	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 shore	acl:relcl
23	sideways	sideway	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 means	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 beach	punct
25	along	along	ADP	_	27 beach	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 beach	det
27	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sideways	appos
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 takes	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take a condition, not said to happen	present	a rip		you			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination
2	float	present	you					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	signal speech: other	present	you not said here				for help	vn instr_communication-37.4.1 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Topic
4	swim	present	a rip not said here			the shore		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to shore=Destination
5	mean	present	the shore	sideways				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sideway=Topic

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:15.

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): R5-strong ×3. 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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