Thinking like a lifeguard, sentence 7
Water pushed onto the beach by waves must flow back out to sea.
Who acts: Water · What happens: push, flow · To what, where: Water, beach
This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking like a lifeguard» 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 (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 | Water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 flow | nsubj |
| 2 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Water | acl |
| 3 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 5 beach | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 beach | det |
| 5 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pushed | obl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 waves | case |
| 7 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pushed | obl:agent |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 flow | aux |
| 9 | flow | flow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 out | advmod |
| 11 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 flow | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 sea | case |
| 13 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 out | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 flow | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push | participle | Water not said here | the beach | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent onto beach=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | flow | must | Water | out property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:050-thinking-about-outdoor-safety.lesson:7.
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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