Rivers, lakes and the sea up close, sentence 5

The sea is never still: waves are made by the wind, and tides, which raise and lower the sea twice a day, are made mostly by the pull of the Moon.

Who acts: sea, wind, tides, pull · What happens: not be, make, raise, low, pull · To what, where: waves, sea, Moon

This is a sentence of the lesson «Rivers, lakes and the sea up close» of the world 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, wind, tides, pull), 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 sea	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 still	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 still	cop
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 still	advmod
5	still	still	ADV	_	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 made	punct
7	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 made	nsubj:pass
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 made	aux:pass
9	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 still	parataxis
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 wind	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wind	det
12	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 made	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tides	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 tides	cc
15	tides	tide	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 wind	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 raise	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 raise	nsubj
18	raise	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 tides	acl:relcl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 lower	cc
20	lower	low	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 raise	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sea	det
22	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lower	obj
23	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	25 day	advmod
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 day	det
25	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 raise	obl:unmarked
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 made	punct
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 made	aux:pass
28	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 still	conj
29	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	28 made	advmod
30	by	by	ADP	_	32 pull	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 pull	det
32	pull	pull	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 made	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 Moon	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Moon	det
35	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 pull	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 still	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	the sea			still property	tree rules
2	make	present · passive	the wind and tides	waves			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product
3	raise	present	tides		day		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	low	present	tides not said here	the sea			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sea=Theme
5	make	present · passive	the pull of the Moon			mostly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
6	pull			the Moon			nom pull «act transitive»: of=patient

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:world:064-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea.lesson:5.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

See the release 0.4.

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