The beach and the sea, sentence 18
Waves can knock you over even in shallow water, so you never turn your back on the sea for long.
Who acts: Waves, you · What happens: knock over, not turn · To what, where: you, shallow water, back, sea
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 (Waves, you), 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 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 knock | obj |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 3 knock | compound:prt |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 water | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 water | case |
| 8 | shallow | shallow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 water | amod |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knock | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 turn | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 turn | advmod |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 turn | nsubj |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 turn | advmod |
| 14 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 knock | advcl |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 back | nmod:poss |
| 16 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 turn | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 sea | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sea | det |
| 19 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 turn | obl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 long | case |
| 21 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 turn | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knock | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- warn
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=warn
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knock over | can | Waves | you | shallow water | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent you=Theme in water=Destination | |||
| 2 | not turn | present | you | your back | the sea | for long | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=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:everyday:044-the-beach-and-the-sea.lesson:18.
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 ×1. 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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