--- title: A rip current is a narrow, fast stream of water flowing away from th… — The beach and the sea · tree and pragmatics description: A rip current is a narrow, fast stream of water flowing away from the shore; it does not pull you under, it pulls you out to sea. Who acts: rip current, water. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rip current, water), 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:2 # text = A rip current is a narrow, fast stream of water flowing away from the shore; it does not pull you under, it pulls you out to sea. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 rip rip NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 3 current current NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 6 narrow narrow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 stream stream NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 flowing flow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 acl _ _ 13 away away ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 shore shore NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 pull pull VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 parataxis _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 under under ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=21:punct 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 pulls pull VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:conj 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 out out ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a rip current | a narrow fast stream | | | | of water | tree rules | | 2 | **flow** | gerund | water *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **not** **pull** | present · do-support | water | you | | | | under *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent you=Result | | 4 | **pull out** | present | water | you | | | | to sea | tree rules | 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](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:2`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [The beach and the sea, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/44-the-beach-and-the-sea/1/) - next →: [The beach and the sea, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/44-the-beach-and-the-sea/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/44-the-beach-and-the-sea/)