--- title: Waves push water up onto the beach all the time, and that water has… — Thinking like a lifeguard · tree and pragmatics description: Waves push water up onto the beach all the time, and that water has to flow back out to sea somewhere; it gathers and rushes back through a narrow gap, often a dip between sandbanks, and that fast outward stream is a rip, so the waves come in while the rip goes out. 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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 (Waves, water, fast outward stream, rip), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:050-thinking-about-outdoor-safety.lesson:0 # text = Waves push water up onto the beach all the time, and that water has to flow back out to sea somewhere; it gathers and rushes back through a narrow gap, often a dip between sandbanks, and that fast outward stream is a rip, so the waves come in while the rip goes out. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 050-thinking-about-outdoor-safety.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 push push VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 up up ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 5 onto onto ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 8 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 10 det:predet _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 flow flow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 back back ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 out out ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 22 somewhere somewhere ADV RB PronType=Ind 17 advmod _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 gathers gather VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 rushes rush VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 28 back back ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 through through ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 narrow narrow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 gap gap NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 often often ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 dip dip NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 appos _ _ 37 between between ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 sandbanks sandbank NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nmod _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 41 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 44 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=47:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 42 fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 43 outward outward ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 stream stream NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 45 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 47 cop _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 rip rip NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 48 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 49 so so ADV RB _ 52 advmod _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 52 nsubj _ _ 52 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 53 in in ADV RB _ 52 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=52:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 54 while while SCONJ IN _ 57 mark _ _ 55 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 56 rip rip NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 nsubj _ _ 57 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 52 advcl _ _ 58 out out ADP RP _ 57 compound:prt _ _ 59 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **push up** | present | Waves | water | | the beach | time | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme onto beach=Destination | | 2 | **have** | present | water | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **flow** | to-infinitive | water *not said here* | | | | | out, somewhere *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **gather** | present | water | | | | | | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **rush back** | present | water *not said here* | | | a narrow gap | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through gap=Trajectory | | 6 | **is a** | present | that fast outward stream | a rip | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **come in** | present | the waves | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **go out** | present | the rip | | | | | | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: 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:050-thinking-about-outdoor-safety.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): R5-strong ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Lost outdoors, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/49-lost-outdoors/19/) - next →: [Thinking like a lifeguard, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety/)