Seasons and tides, sentence 14

On some flat beaches the sea comes back in faster than you can walk; if cut off, call the coastguard rather than try to wade.

Who acts: sea, you · What happens: come back, walk, cut off, call, try, wade · To what, where: flat beaches, faster, coastguard · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Seasons and tides» 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 (sea, 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 beaches	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 beaches	det
3	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 beaches	amod
4	beaches	beach	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 call	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 comes	nsubj
7	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 beaches	acl:relcl
8	back	back	ADV	_	10 faster	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 faster	case
10	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 comes	obl
11	than	than	SCONJ	_	14 walk	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 walk	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 walk	aux
14	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 faster	advcl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 cut	punct
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 cut	mark
17	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 call	advcl
18	off	off	ADP	_	17 cut	compound:prt
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 call	punct
20	call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 coastguard	det
22	coastguard	coastguard	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 call	obj
23	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	25 try	cc
24	than	than	ADP	_	23 rather	fixed
25	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 call	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 wade	mark
27	wade	wade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 try	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 call	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come back	present	the sea	some flat beaches not said here	faster	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location beach=Theme
2	walk	can	you			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cut off a condition, not said to happen	participle	you not said here			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	call	imperative	you not said here	the coastguard	some flat beaches	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent coastguard=Recipient
5	try	infinitive	you not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	wade not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP 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:physics:040-seasons-and-tides.lesson:14.

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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