--- title: Calm-looking dark water between breaking waves can be a rip current. — The beach and the sea · tree and pragmatics description: Calm-looking dark water between breaking waves can be a rip current. Who acts: looking dark water. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/44-the-beach-and-the-sea/20/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [The beach and the sea](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/44-the-beach-and-the-sea/) / 20 # The beach and the sea, sentence 20 Calm-looking dark water between breaking waves can be a rip current. **Who acts:** looking dark water · **What happens:** look, break, be · **To what, where:** waves, rip current 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 (looking dark 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:20 # text = Calm-looking dark water between breaking waves can be a rip current. # 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 Calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ _ 3 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 amod _ _ 4 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 6 between between ADP IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 breaking break VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 acl _ _ 8 waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 13 cop _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 rip rip NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 current current NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | gerund | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **break** | gerund | looking dark water *not said here* | waves | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wave=Patient | | 3 | **is a** | can | looking dark water | a rip current | | | | | 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:20`. **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/). - ← previous: [The beach and the sea, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/44-the-beach-and-the-sea/18/) - next →: [The beach and the sea, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/44-the-beach-and-the-sea/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/44-the-beach-and-the-sea/)