--- title: Near the coast the water gets shallow, the wave slows down and piles… — Tsunamis · tree and pragmatics description: Near the coast the water gets shallow, the wave slows down and piles up, sometimes over 10 metres high, and floods far inland like the whole sea climbing onto the land. Who acts: water, wave, whole sea. A sentence of the lesson «Tsunamis» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dep --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/45-tsunamis/2/) [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/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/) / [Tsunamis](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/45-tsunamis/) / 2 # Tsunamis, sentence 2 Near the coast the water gets shallow, the wave slows down and piles up, sometimes over 10 metres high, and floods far inland like the whole sea climbing onto the land. **Who acts:** water, wave, whole sea · **What happens:** get, slow down, pile up, flood, climbing · **To what, where:** coast, land This is a sentence of the lesson «Tsunamis» of the geography 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 (water, wave, whole sea), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:045-tsunamis.lesson:2 # text = Near the coast the water gets shallow, the wave slows down and piles up, sometimes over 10 metres high, and floods far inland like the whole sea climbing onto the land. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 045-tsunamis.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 Near near ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 coast coast NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 shallow shallow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 wave wave NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 slows slow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 12 down down ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 piles pile VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 15 up up ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 18 advmod _ _ 18 over over ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl:unmarked _ _ 21 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 advcl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 floods flood VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 25 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 26 advmod _ _ 26 inland inland ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 27 like like SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 climbing climbing VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ _ 32 onto onto ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | present | the water | | | the coast | | shallow *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **slow down** | present | the wave | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **pile up** | present | the wave *not said here* | | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **flood** | present | the wave *not said here* | | | | | inland *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **climbing** | gerund | the whole sea | | | the land | | | 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:045-tsunamis.lesson:2`. **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: [Tsunamis, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/45-tsunamis/1/) - next →: [Tsunamis, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/45-tsunamis/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/45-tsunamis/)