Tsunamis, sentence 3
Slosh the water at one end of a full bath with your hand: the wave crosses low and fast, then heaps up and spills over at the shallow end; a tsunami does that with a whole ocean.
Who acts: you, wave, tsunami · What happens: slosh, cross, heap up, spill over, do · To what, where: water, one end, shallow end, that
This is a sentence of the lesson «Tsunamis» of the geography 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 (you, wave, tsunami), 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 | Slosh | slosh | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 water | det |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Slosh | obj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 end | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 end | nummod |
| 6 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Slosh | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 bath | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bath | det |
| 9 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bath | amod |
| 10 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 end | nmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 hand | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hand | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Slosh | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 crosses | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wave | det |
| 16 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 crosses | nsubj |
| 17 | crosses | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Slosh | parataxis |
| 18 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 crosses | xcomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 fast | cc |
| 20 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 low | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 heaps | punct |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 heaps | advmod |
| 23 | heaps | heap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 crosses | conj |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 heaps | compound:prt |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 spills | cc |
| 26 | spills | spill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 heaps | conj |
| 27 | over | over | ADP | _ | 26 spills | compound:prt |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 end | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 end | det |
| 30 | shallow | shallow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 end | amod |
| 31 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 spills | obl |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 does | punct |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 tsunami | det |
| 34 | tsunami | tsunami | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 does | nsubj |
| 35 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 heaps | conj |
| 36 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Dem | 35 does | obj |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 ocean | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 ocean | det |
| 39 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 ocean | amod |
| 40 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 does | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Slosh | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slosh | imperative | you not said here | the water | at one end of a full bath | with your hand | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme | ||
| 2 | cross | present | the wave | low property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | heap up | present | the wave not said here | then | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | spill over | present | the wave not said here | at the shallow end | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=Location | ||||
| 5 | do | present | a tsunami | that | with a whole ocean | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
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:geography:045-tsunamis.lesson:3.
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): 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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