The beach and the sea, sentence 2
A rip current is a narrow, fast stream of water flowing away from the shore; it does not pull you under, it pulls you out to sea.
Who acts: rip current, water · What happens: be, flow, not pull, pull out · To what, where: narrow fast stream, you
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, water), 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 stream | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 stream | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 stream | det |
| 6 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stream | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 narrow | punct |
| 8 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stream | amod |
| 9 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 water | case |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stream | nmod |
| 12 | flowing | flow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 water | acl |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 flowing | 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 | 13 away | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 pull | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 pull | nsubj |
| 19 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 pull | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 pull | advmod |
| 21 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 stream | parataxis |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 pull | obj |
| 23 | under | under | ADV | _ | 21 pull | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 pulls | punct |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 pulls | nsubj |
| 26 | pulls | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 pull | parataxis |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 pulls | obj |
| 28 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 pulls | compound:prt |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 sea | case |
| 30 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pulls | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 stream | 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 stream | of water | tree rules | |||
| 2 | flow | gerund | water not said here | away property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not pull | present · do-support | water | you | under property | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent you=Result | |||
| 4 | pull out | present | water | you | to sea | tree rules |
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:2.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/44-the-beach-and-the-sea/2/