The beach and the sea, sentence 6

A family in Australia went to a beach with no lifeguards and swam where the water looked calm; it was a rip, and the father had to be rescued by a surfer.

Who acts: family, water, father, surfer · What happens: go, swim, look, be, have, rescue · To what, where: beach, 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 (family, water, father, surfer), 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 family	det
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Australia	case
4	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 family	nmod
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 beach	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 beach	det
8	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 lifeguards	case
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 lifeguards	det
11	lifeguards	lifeguard	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 beach	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 swam	cc
13	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 looked	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 water	det
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 looked	nsubj
17	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 swam	advcl:relcl
18	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 looked	xcomp
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 rip	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 rip	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 rip	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 rip	det
23	rip	rip	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 had	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 had	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 father	det
27	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 rip	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	31 rescued	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 rescued	aux:pass
31	rescued	rescue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 had	xcomp
32	by	by	ADP	_	34 surfer	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 surfer	det
34	surfer	surfer	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 rescued	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	a family in Australia		a beach with no lifeguards		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to beach=Initial_Location
2	swim	past	a family in Australia not said here				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	look	past	the water			calm property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	is a	past	water	a rip			tree rules
5	have	past	the father				tree rules
6	rescue	to-infinitive · passive	a surfer				vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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:6.

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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