--- title: Often the sea first drains far back from the beach, which tempts peo… — Tsunamis · tree and pragmatics description: Often the sea first drains far back from the beach, which tempts people to go and look; the right thing is to run to high ground at once, because the waves come in a train and the first is often not the biggest. Who acts: sea, beach, right thing, waves. A sentence of the lesson «Tsunamis» of the geo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/45-tsunamis/4/) [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/) / 4 # Tsunamis, sentence 4 Often the sea first drains far back from the beach, which tempts people to go and look; the right thing is to run to high ground at once, because the waves come in a train and the first is often not the biggest. **Who acts:** sea, beach, right thing, waves, first · **What happens:** drain, tempt, go, look, be, come · **To what, where:** beach, people, train 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 (sea, beach, right thing, waves), 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:4 # text = Often the sea first drains far back from the beach, which tempts people to go and look; the right thing is to run to high ground at once, because the waves come in a train and the first is often not the biggest. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Often often ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:det 3 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 first first ADV RB Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 5 advmod _ _ 5 drains drain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ _ 7 back back ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nsubj 13 tempts tempt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 14 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 at at ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 25 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 because because SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 35 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:conj 36 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 train train NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 46 nsubj _ _ 42 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 cop _ _ 43 often often ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 44 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 46 advmod _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 35 conj _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drain** | present | the sea | | | the beach | | first, often *property* | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Theme from beach=Source | | 2 | **tempt** | present | the beach | people | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **go** | to-infinitive | the beach *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **look** | infinitive | the beach *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **is** | present | the right thing | | | | | to high ground; run *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **come** | present | the waves | | | a train | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in train=Location | | 7 | **not** **is** | present | the first | | | | | big, often *property* | 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:4`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×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: [Tsunamis, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/45-tsunamis/3/) - next →: [Tsunamis, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/45-tsunamis/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/45-tsunamis/)