--- title: Watch the sand on a beach where waves come in at a slant: it is move… — Coasts and caves · tree and pragmatics description: Watch the sand on a beach where waves come in at a slant: it is moved along the shore, step by step, by longshore drift, and can build a long finger of sand called a spit. Who acts: you, waves, long finger. A sentence of the lesson «Coasts and caves» of the geography course of Mova's primary school --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/55-coasts-and-caves/3/) [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/) / [Coasts and caves](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/55-coasts-and-caves/) / 3 # Coasts and caves, sentence 3 Watch the sand on a beach where waves come in at a slant: it is moved along the shore, step by step, by longshore drift, and can build a long finger of sand called a spit. **Who acts:** you, waves, long finger · **What happens:** watch, come in, move, build, call · **To what, where:** sand, beach, slant, shore, long finger, spit · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Coasts and caves» 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 (you, waves, long finger), 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:3 # text = Watch the sand on a beach where waves come in at a slant: it is moved along the shore, step by step, by longshore drift, and can build a long finger of sand called a spit. # 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): R5-strong ×2 1 Watch watch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 9 advmod _ _ 8 waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 10 in in ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 slant slant NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 moved move VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 parataxis _ _ 18 along along ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 shore shore NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 23 by by ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 by by ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 longshore longshore ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 drift drift NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 build build VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 38 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:acl 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 spit spit NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 xcomp _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** | imperative | you *not said here* | the sand | | a beach | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sand=Theme | | 2 | **come in** | present | waves | | | a slant | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at slant=Location | | 3 | **move** | present · passive | | sand | | the shore by step and step and longshore drift | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme along shore=Trajectory | | 4 | **build** | can | | a long finger of sand | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset finger=Product | | 5 | **call** | participle | a long finger of sand *not said here* | a spit | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:3`. **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. **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: [Coasts and caves, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/55-coasts-and-caves/1/) - next →: [Coasts and caves, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/55-coasts-and-caves/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/55-coasts-and-caves/)