--- title: Fewer waves break over a rip, because the water there is deeper and… — Thinking like a lifeguard · tree and pragmatics description: Fewer waves break over a rip, because the water there is deeper and flowing out, so a rip looks calmer. Who acts: Fewer waves, water, rip. A sentence of the lesson «Thinking like a lifeguard» 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/50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety/9/) [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/) / [Thinking like a lifeguard](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety/) / 9 # Thinking like a lifeguard, sentence 9 Fewer waves break over a rip, because the water there is deeper and flowing out, so a rip looks calmer. **Who acts:** Fewer waves, water, rip · **What happens:** break, be, flow out, look · **To what, where:** rip This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking like a lifeguard» 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 (Fewer waves, water, 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:9 # text = Fewer waves break over a rip, because the water there is deeper and flowing out, so a rip looks calmer. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Fewer few ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 amod _ _ 2 waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 break break VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 over over ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 rip rip NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 because because SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:ExtPos=ADP 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 11 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 10 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:expl|HaikuPos=PRON:EX:PronType=Dem 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 deeper deep ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 advcl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 flowing flow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 conj _ _ 16 out out ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 18 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 rip rip NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 22 calmer calm ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 21 xcomp _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break** | present | Fewer waves | | | a rip | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over rip=Location | | 2 | **is** | present | the water | | | | | deep *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **flow out** | gerund | the water *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **look** | present | a rip | | | | | calm *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:9`. **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, 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: [Thinking like a lifeguard, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety/8/) - next →: [Thinking like a lifeguard, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/50-thinking-about-outdoor-safety/)