--- title: The tide comes in across flat sand faster than you can walk and fill… — Swimming out too far: sea, rivers, lakes and qua… · tree and pragmatics description: The tide comes in across flat sand faster than you can walk and fills channels behind you first, cutting off sandbanks. Who acts: tide, you. A sentence of the lesson «Swimming out too far: sea, rivers, lakes and quarries» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/71-swimming-out-too-far-sea-rivers-lakes-and-quarries/16/) [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/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/) / [Swimming out too far: sea, rivers, lak…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/71-swimming-out-too-far-sea-rivers-lakes-and-quarries/) / 16 # Swimming out too far: sea, rivers, lakes and quarries, sentence 16 The tide comes in across flat sand faster than you can walk and fills channels behind you first, cutting off sandbanks. **Who acts:** tide, you · **What happens:** come in, walk, fill, cut off · **To what, where:** flat sand, channels, sandbanks This is a sentence of the lesson «Swimming out too far: sea, rivers, lakes and quarries» of the medicine 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 (tide, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:071-swimming-out-too-far-sea-rivers-lakes-and-quarries.lesson:16 # text = The tide comes in across flat sand faster than you can walk and fills channels behind you first, cutting off sandbanks. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 071-swimming-out-too-far-sea-rivers-lakes-and-quarries.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 ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 tide tide NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 across across ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 3 advmod _ _ 9 than than SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 fills fill VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj 15 channels channel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 behind behind ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 obl _ _ 18 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 14 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advmod 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 cutting cut VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 21 off off ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 sandbanks sandbank NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **come in** | present | the tide | | | flat sand | | fast *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme across sand=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **walk** | can | you | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **fill** | present | the tide *not said here* | channels | | | | behind you; first *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent channel=Patient | | 4 | **cut off** | gerund | the tide *not said here* | sandbanks | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector sandbank=Eventuality | 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:medicine:071-swimming-out-too-far-sea-rivers-lakes-and-quarries.lesson:16`. **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 ×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: [Swimming out too far: sea, rivers, lak…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/71-swimming-out-too-far-sea-rivers-lakes-and-quarries/15/) - next →: [Bike helmets and roads, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/72-bike-helmets-and-roads/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/71-swimming-out-too-far-sea-rivers-lakes-and-quarries/)