The beach and the sea, sentence 8
Red and yellow flags mark the area that lifeguards watch, and you swim between them.
Who acts: Red flags, lifeguards, you · What happens: mark, watch, swim · To what, where: area
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 (Red flags, lifeguards, 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 | Red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 flags | amod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 yellow | cc |
| 3 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Red | conj |
| 4 | flags | flag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 mark | nsubj |
| 5 | mark | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 area | det |
| 7 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mark | obj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 watch | obj |
| 9 | lifeguards | lifeguard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 watch | nsubj |
| 10 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 area | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 swim | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 swim | cc |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 swim | nsubj |
| 14 | swim | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mark | conj |
| 15 | between | between | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 swim | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 mark | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mark | present | Red flags | the area | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent area=Destination | ||||
| 2 | watch | present | lifeguards | the area | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | ||||
| 3 | swim | present | you | between lifeguards = lifeguard | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between they=Trajectory |
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:8.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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