The beach and the sea, sentence 4
A boy on a Queensland beach who fights straight back against a rip gets tired and frightened, while the boy who floats or swims sideways soon escapes it, because the rip is narrow.
Who acts: Queensland beach, boy, rip · What happens: fight, get, float, swim, escape, be · To what, where: rip
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 (Queensland beach, boy, rip), 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 | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 escapes | nsubj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 beach | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 beach | det |
| 5 | Queensland | Queensland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 beach | compound |
| 6 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 fights | nsubj |
| 8 | fights | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 beach | acl:relcl |
| 9 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 10 back | advmod |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 fights | advmod |
| 11 | against | against | ADP | _ | 13 rip | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 rip | det |
| 13 | rip | rip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fights | obl |
| 14 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 escapes | parataxis |
| 15 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 gets | xcomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 frightened | cc |
| 17 | frightened | frighten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tired | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 boy | punct |
| 19 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 21 boy | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 boy | det |
| 21 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 escapes | nsubj |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 floats | nsubj |
| 23 | floats | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 boy | acl:relcl |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 swims | cc |
| 25 | swims | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 floats | conj |
| 26 | sideways | sideways | ADV | _ | 25 swims | advmod |
| 27 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 escapes | advmod |
| 28 | escapes | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 escapes | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 narrow | punct |
| 31 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 35 narrow | mark |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 rip | det |
| 33 | rip | rip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 narrow | nsubj |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 narrow | cop |
| 35 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 escapes | advcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 escapes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | present | a Queensland beach | against a rip | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | get | present | tired property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | float | present | the boy | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | swim | present | the boy not said here | sideways property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | escape | present | a boy on a Queensland beach | rip | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | is | present | the rip | narrow property | 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:4.
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 ×1, R8-pos-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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