Thinking like a lifeguard, sentence 9
Fewer waves break over a rip, because the water there is deeper and flowing out, so a rip looks calmer.
Who acts: Fewer waves, water, rip · What happens: break, be, flow out, look · To what, where: rip
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 (Fewer waves, water, 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 | Fewer | few | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 waves | amod |
| 2 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 break | nsubj |
| 3 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 rip | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 rip | det |
| 6 | rip | rip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 break | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 water | punct |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 deeper | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 water | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 deeper | nsubj |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 water | advmod |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 deeper | cop |
| 13 | deeper | deep | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 break | advcl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 flowing | cc |
| 15 | flowing | flow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 deeper | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 flowing | compound:prt |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 looks | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 looks | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 rip | det |
| 20 | rip | rip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 looks | nsubj |
| 21 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 break | conj |
| 22 | calmer | calm | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 looks | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 break | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | present | Fewer waves | a rip | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over rip=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the water | deep property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | flow out | gerund | the water not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | look | present | a rip | calm property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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: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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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