Swimming out too far: sea, rivers, lakes and quarries, sentence 6
A rip current is a strong channel of water flowing away from the beach; it pulls you out, not under, people drown when they tire and chill fighting it, and a strong rip can move about as fast as an Olympic swimmer.
Who acts: rip current, water, people, strong rip · What happens: be, flow away, pull out, not drown, tire, chill · To what, where: strong channel, beach, you, water
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 (rip current, water, people, strong 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 current | det |
| 2 | rip | rip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 current | compound |
| 3 | current | current | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 channel | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 channel | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 channel | det |
| 6 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 channel | amod |
| 7 | channel | channel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 water | case |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 channel | nmod |
| 10 | flowing | flow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 water | acl |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 flowing | advmod |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 beach | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 beach | det |
| 14 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flowing | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 pulls | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 pulls | nsubj |
| 17 | pulls | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 channel | parataxis |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 pulls | obj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 pulls | compound:prt |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 drown | punct |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 drown | advmod |
| 22 | under | under | ADP | _ | 25 drown | mark |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 under | punct |
| 24 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 drown | nsubj |
| 25 | drown | drown | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 pulls | conj |
| 26 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 28 tire | mark |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 tire | nsubj |
| 28 | tire | tire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 drown | advcl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 chill | cc |
| 30 | chill | chill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 tire | conj |
| 31 | fighting | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 chill | xcomp |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 fighting | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 move | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 move | cc |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 rip | det |
| 36 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 rip | amod |
| 37 | rip | rip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 move | nsubj |
| 38 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 move | aux |
| 39 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 drown | conj |
| 40 | about | about | ADV | _ | 42 fast | advmod |
| 41 | as | as | ADV | _ | 42 fast | advmod |
| 42 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 39 move | advmod |
| 43 | as | as | ADP | _ | 46 swimmer | case |
| 44 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 swimmer | det |
| 45 | Olympic | olympic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 swimmer | amod |
| 46 | swimmer | swimmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 fast | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 channel | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a rip current | a strong channel | of water | tree rules | |||
| 2 | flow away | gerund | water not said here | the beach | away property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | pull out | present | water | you | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not drown | infinitive | people | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | tire | present | people | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | chill | present | people not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | fight | gerund | people not said here | water | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent | ||||
| 8 | move about | can | a strong rip | fast property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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: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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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