Swimming out too far: sea, rivers, lakes and quarries, sentence 16

The tide comes in across flat sand faster than you can walk and fills channels behind you first, cutting off sandbanks.

Who acts: tide, you · What happens: come in, walk, fill, cut off · To what, where: flat sand, channels, sandbanks

This is a sentence of the lesson «Swimming out too far: sea, rivers, lakes and quarries» of the medicine 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 (tide, you), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tide	det
2	tide	tide	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	nsubj
3	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADV	_	3 comes	advmod
5	across	across	ADP	_	7 sand	case
6	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sand	amod
7	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	obl
8	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 comes	advmod
9	than	than	SCONJ	_	12 walk	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 walk	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 walk	aux
12	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 faster	advcl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fills	cc
14	fills	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 comes	conj
15	channels	channel	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 fills	obj
16	behind	behind	ADP	_	17 you	case
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 fills	obl
18	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 fills	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 cutting	punct
20	cutting	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 fills	advcl
21	off	off	ADP	_	20 cutting	compound:prt
22	sandbanks	sandbank	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 cutting	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 comes	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come in	present	the tide		flat sand	fast property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across sand=Initial_Location
2	walk	can	you				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fill	present	the tide not said here	channels		behind you; first property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent channel=Patient
4	cut off	gerund	the tide not said here	sandbanks			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector sandbank=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:medicine:071-swimming-out-too-far-sea-rivers-lakes-and-quarries.lesson:16.

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 ×3. 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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