Coasts and caves, sentence 6
Waves crash against coasts and wear them away, especially during storms.
Who acts: Waves · What happens: crash, wear away · To what, where: coasts, waves
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), 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 | 2 crash | nsubj |
| 2 | crash | crash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | against | against | ADP | _ | 4 coasts | case |
| 4 | coasts | coast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 crash | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 wear | cc |
| 6 | wear | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 crash | conj |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wear | obj |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 wear | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 storms | punct |
| 10 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 12 storms | advmod |
| 11 | during | during | ADP | _ | 12 storms | case |
| 12 | storms | storm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 wear | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 crash | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crash | present | Waves | coasts | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against coast=Location | ||||
| 2 | wear away | present | Waves not said here | waves = wave | during storms | away property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source |
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:6.
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): R8-pos-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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