--- title: Waves crash against coasts and wear them away, especially during sto… — Coasts and caves · tree and pragmatics description: Waves crash against coasts and wear them away, especially during storms. Who acts: Waves. A sentence of the lesson «Coasts and caves» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [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/6/) [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/) / 6 # Coasts and caves, sentence 6 Waves crash against coasts and wear them away, especially during storms. **Who acts:** Waves · **What happens:** crash, wear away · **To what, where:** coasts, waves 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 (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:6 # text = Waves crash against coasts and wear them away, especially during storms. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 crash crash VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 against against ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 coasts coast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 wear wear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 7 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 away away ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 especially especially ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 11 during during ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 storms storm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 13 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **crash** | present | Waves | | | coasts | | | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against coast=Location | | 2 | **wear away** | present | Waves *not said here* | waves *= wave* | | | during storms | away *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source | 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:6`. **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): R8-pos-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: [Coasts and caves, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/55-coasts-and-caves/5/) - next →: [Coasts and caves, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/55-coasts-and-caves/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/55-coasts-and-caves/)