Coasts and caves, sentence 10
Waves hitting a beach at an angle move sand along the coast, a process called longshore drift.
Who acts: Waves, process · What happens: hit, move, call · To what, where: beach, angle, sand, coast, longshore drift · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Coasts and caves» 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 (Waves, process), 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 | Waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 move | nsubj |
| 2 | hitting | hit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Waves | acl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 beach | det |
| 4 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hitting | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 angle | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 angle | det |
| 7 | angle | angle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hitting | obl |
| 8 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 move | obj |
| 10 | along | along | ADP | _ | 12 coast | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 coast | det |
| 12 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 move | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 process | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 process | det |
| 15 | process | process | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 move | parataxis |
| 16 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 process | acl |
| 17 | longshore | longshore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 drift | amod |
| 18 | drift | drift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 called | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 move | 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 | hit | gerund | Waves not said here | a beach | a angle | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent beach=Theme at angle=Destination | |||
| 2 | move | present | Waves | sand | the coast | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent sand=Theme along coast=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | call | participle | a process not said here | longshore drift | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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:geography:055-coasts-and-caves.lesson:10.
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. 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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