Seasons and tides, sentence 4
On a flat beach the tide can come back in faster than you can walk, so always check the tide times before you explore a sandbank.
Who acts: tide, you · What happens: come back, walk, check, explore · To what, where: flat beach, sandbank
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 (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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 beach | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 beach | det |
| 3 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 beach | amod |
| 4 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 come | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tide | det |
| 6 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 come | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 come | aux |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 come | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 faster | case |
| 11 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 come | obl |
| 12 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 15 walk | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 walk | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 walk | aux |
| 15 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 faster | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 check | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 check | advmod |
| 18 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 19 check | advmod |
| 19 | check | check | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 come | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 times | det |
| 21 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 times | compound |
| 22 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 check | obj |
| 23 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 25 explore | mark |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 explore | nsubj |
| 25 | explore | explore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 check | advcl |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 sandbank | det |
| 27 | sandbank | sandbank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 explore | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | can | the tide | a flat beach | in faster | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on beach=Location | |||
| 2 | walk | can | you | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | check | infinitive | time | always property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | explore | present | you | a sandbank | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent sandbank=Location |
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:4.
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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