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title: Waves can knock you over even in shallow water, so you never turn yo… — The beach and the sea · tree and pragmatics
description: Waves can knock you over even in shallow water, so you never turn your back on the sea for long. Who acts: Waves, you. A sentence of the lesson «The beach and the sea» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The beach and the sea, sentence 18

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Waves can knock you over even in shallow water, so you never turn your back on the sea for long.

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**Who acts:** Waves, you · **What happens:** knock over, not turn · **To what, where:** you, shallow water, back, sea

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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 (Waves, you), 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:18
# text = Waves can knock you over even in shallow water, so you never turn your back on the sea for long.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
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	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
6	even	even	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	shallow	shallow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:cc|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **knock over** | can | Waves | you |  | shallow water |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent you=Theme in water=Destination |
| 2 | **not** **turn** | present | you | your back |  | the sea |  | for long | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=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:18`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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