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title: Waves can knock a child over and roll them along the bottom, and the… — The sea, waves and swimming pools · tree and pragmatics
description: Waves can knock a child over and roll them along the bottom, and the sea floor can suddenly drop away, so beginners stay in shallow water close to a grown-up. Who acts: Waves, sea floor, beginners. A sentence of the lesson «The sea, waves and swimming pools» of the everyday course of Mova's primary 
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# The sea, waves and swimming pools, sentence 1

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Waves can knock a child over and roll them along the bottom, and the sea floor can suddenly drop away, so beginners stay in shallow water close to a grown-up.

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**Who acts:** Waves, sea floor, beginners · **What happens:** knock over, roll, drop away, stay · **To what, where:** child, Waves, bottom, shallow water

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The sea, waves and swimming pools» of the everyday 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, sea floor, beginners), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:233-sea-and-pools.lesson:1
# text = Waves can knock a child over and roll them along the bottom, and the sea floor can suddenly drop away, so beginners stay in shallow water close to a grown-up.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 233-sea-and-pools.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change
1	Waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	knock	knock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	over	over	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	roll	roll	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	along	along	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	drop	drop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
21	away	away	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	beginners	beginner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	shallow	shallow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	grown	grown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	_
34	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **knock over** | can | Waves | a child |  |  |  | over *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
| 2 | **roll** | infinitive | Waves *not said here* | Waves *= wave* |  | the bottom |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme along bottom=Trajectory |
| 3 | **drop away** | can | the sea floor |  |  |  |  | away, suddenly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **stay** | present | beginners |  |  | shallow water |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location |

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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.

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**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): no change. **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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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