--- title: A family in Australia went to a beach with no lifeguards and swam wh… — The beach and the sea · tree and pragmatics description: A family in Australia went to a beach with no lifeguards and swam where the water looked calm; it was a rip, and the father had to be rescued by a surfer. Who acts: family, water, father, surfer. 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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 (family, water, father, surfer), 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:6 # text = A family in Australia went to a beach with no lifeguards and swam where the water looked calm; it was a rip, and the father had to be rescued by a surfer. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 11 det _ _ 11 lifeguards lifeguard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 swam swim VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 14 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 17 advmod _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl:relcl _ _ 18 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 rip rip NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 30 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 rescued rescue VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 xcomp _ _ 32 by by ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 surfer surfer NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | a family in Australia | | | a beach with no lifeguards | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to beach=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **swim** | past | a family in Australia *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **look** | past | the water | | | | | calm *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **is a** | past | water | a rip | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **have** | past | the father | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **rescue** | to-infinitive · passive | a surfer | | | | | | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:6`. **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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/44-the-beach-and-the-sea/5/) - next →: [The beach and the sea, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/44-the-beach-and-the-sea/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/44-the-beach-and-the-sea/)