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title: The sea is never as still as a pool: waves knock you over, the tide… — The beach and the sea · tree and pragmatics
description: The sea is never as still as a pool: waves knock you over, the tide comes in and out, and hidden currents move water much faster than you can swim. Who acts: sea, waves, tide, hidden currents. A sentence of the lesson «The beach and the sea» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its d
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# The beach and the sea, sentence 0

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The sea is never as still as a pool: waves knock you over, the tide comes in and out, and hidden currents move water much faster than you can swim.

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**Who acts:** sea, waves, tide, hidden currents, you · **What happens:** not be, knock over, come, move, swim · **To what, where:** you, water

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The beach and the sea» 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 (sea, waves, tide, hidden currents), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:044-the-beach-and-the-sea.lesson:0
# text = The sea is never as still as a pool: waves knock you over, the tide comes in and out, and hidden currents move water much faster than you can swim.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 044-the-beach-and-the-sea.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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	still	still	ADJ	JJ	_	0	root	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	knock	knock	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	over	over	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	tide	tide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
19	in	in	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	out	out	ADV	RB	_	19	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	currents	current	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	move	move	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
27	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	much	much	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	advcl	_	_
30	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **not** **is** | present | the sea |  |  |  |  | as a pool; still *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **knock over** | present | waves | you |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | present | the tide |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **move** | present | hidden currents | water |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
| 5 | **swim** | can | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:everyday:044-the-beach-and-the-sea.lesson:0`.

**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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