The beach and the sea, sentence 9
Lifeguards move the flags during the day, because the safe place changes as the tide and currents change.
Who acts: Lifeguards, safe place, tide · What happens: move, change · To what, where: flags
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 (Lifeguards, safe place, tide), 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 | Lifeguards | lifeguard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 move | nsubj |
| 2 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 flags | det |
| 4 | flags | flag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 move | obj |
| 5 | during | during | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 move | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 move | punct |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 changes | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 place | det |
| 11 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 place | amod |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 changes | nsubj |
| 13 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 move | advcl |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 change | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tide | det |
| 16 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 change | nsubj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 currents | cc |
| 18 | currents | current | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 tide | conj |
| 19 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 changes | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 move | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | present | Lifeguards | the flags | day | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent flag=Theme | |||
| 2 | change | present | the safe place | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | change | present | the tide and currents | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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:9.
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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