The beach and the sea, sentence 20
Calm-looking dark water between breaking waves can be a rip current.
Who acts: looking dark water · What happens: look, break, be · To what, where: waves, rip current
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 (looking dark 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 | Calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 looking | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Calm | punct |
| 3 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 water | amod |
| 4 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 water | amod |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 current | nsubj |
| 6 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 breaking | mark |
| 7 | breaking | break | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 water | acl |
| 8 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 breaking | obj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 current | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 current | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 current | det |
| 12 | rip | rip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 current | compound |
| 13 | current | current | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 current | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | break | gerund | looking dark water not said here | waves | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wave=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | can | looking dark water | a rip current | 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:20.
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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