--- title: The coast is where land and sea fight, and in storms the waves hit c… — Coasts and caves · tree and pragmatics description: The coast is where land and sea fight, and in storms the waves hit cliffs with huge force, hurling pebbles and squeezing air into cracks. Who acts: coast, land, waves. 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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 (coast, land, waves), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:055-coasts-and-caves.lesson:0 # text = The coast is where land and sea fight, and in storms the waves hit cliffs with huge force, hurling pebbles and squeezing air into cracks. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 055-coasts-and-caves.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): R1-cc-next ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 coast coast NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 8 advmod _ _ 5 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc 7 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 8 fight fight VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 storms storm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 hit hit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 16 cliffs cliff NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 force force NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 hurling hurl VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 22 pebbles pebble NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=21:cc 24 squeezing squeezing VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 conj _ _ 25 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 into into ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 cracks crack NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 28 . . 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 | **be** | present | the coast | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **fight** | present | land and sea | | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **hit** | past | the waves | cliffs | | storms | | with huge force | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent cliff=Patient with force=Instrument | | 4 | **hurl** | gerund | the waves *not said here* | pebbles | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pebble=Theme | | 5 | **squeezing** | gerund | the waves *not said here* | air | | cracks | | | 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:055-coasts-and-caves.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): R1-cc-next ×3. **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: [Glaciers and ice ages, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/54-glaciers-and-ice-ages/19/) - next →: [Coasts and caves, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/55-coasts-and-caves/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/55-coasts-and-caves/)