--- title: On a sunny afternoon at the beach the land heats faster than the sea… — Winds, monsoons and ocean currents · tree and pragmatics description: On a sunny afternoon at the beach the land heats faster than the sea, the warm air over the sand rises, and cooler air slides in from the water to take its place: that is a sea breeze. Who acts: land, warm air, cooler air, that. 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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 (land, warm air, cooler air, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:022-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents.lesson:0 # text = On a sunny afternoon at the beach the land heats faster than the sea, the warm air over the sand rises, and cooler air slides in from the water to take its place: that is a sea breeze. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 022-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents.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, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 On on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 sunny sunny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 afternoon afternoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 heats heat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 10 advmod _ _ 12 than than ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 19 over over ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 22 rises rise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 cooler cool ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 26 amod _ _ 26 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 slides slide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 28 in in ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 from from ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:acl 34 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 : : PUNCT : _ 41 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 37 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 41 nsubj _ _ 38 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 breeze breeze NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 parataxis _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 41 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **heat** | present | the land | | | | afternoon | fast *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **rise** | present | the warm air | | | the sand | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over sand=Location | | 3 | **slide** | present | cooler air | | | the water | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from water=Trajectory | | 4 | **take** | to-infinitive | cooler air *not said here* | air's place | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | present | that | a sea breeze | | | | | 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:geography:022-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents.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, R6-punct-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. 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