Water safety and the ocean, sentence 12
A rip current is water piled up by waves rushing back out to sea through a narrow channel.
Who acts: waves · What happens: pile up, rush · To what, where: rip current, narrow channel
This is a sentence of the lesson «Water safety and the ocean» of the physics 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 | 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 | 6 piled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 piled | aux:pass |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 piled | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | piled | pile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 piled | compound:prt |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 waves | case |
| 9 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 piled | obl:agent |
| 10 | rushing | rush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 waves | acl |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 out | advmod |
| 12 | out | out | ADV | _ | 14 sea | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 sea | case |
| 14 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rushing | obl |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 channel | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 channel | det |
| 17 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 channel | amod |
| 18 | channel | channel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rushing | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 piled | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pile up | present · passive | waves | a rip current | water obl:unmarked | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Destination | |||
| 2 | rush | gerund | waves not said here | a narrow channel | to sea result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to sea=Result |
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:physics:013-water-safety-and-the-ocean.lesson:12.
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): 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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