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title: On a sunny afternoon at the beach the sand warms faster than the sea… — Wind and weather · tree and pragmatics
description: On a sunny afternoon at the beach the sand warms faster than the sea, the warm air above it rises, and cooler air from the sea rushes in to take its place: that is the sea breeze on your face. Who acts: sand, warm air, cooler air, that. A sentence of the lesson «Wind and weather» of the physics cour
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# Wind and weather, sentence 1

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On a sunny afternoon at the beach the sand warms faster than the sea, the warm air above it rises, and cooler air from the sea rushes in to take its place: that is the sea breeze on your face.

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**Who acts:** sand, warm air, cooler air, that · **What happens:** warm, rise, rush in, take, be · **To what, where:** place, sea breeze, face

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Wind and weather» of the physics 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 (sand, warm air, cooler air, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:015-wind-and-weather.lesson:1
# text = On a sunny afternoon at the beach the sand warms faster than the sea, the warm air above it rises, and cooler air from the sea rushes in to take its place: that is the sea breeze on your face.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 015-wind-and-weather.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, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	sunny	sunny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:obl
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:det
9	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	warms	warm	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	_
11	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	above	above	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	_
21	rises	rise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
24	cooler	cool	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	amod	_	_
25	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	rushes	rush	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
30	in	in	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
33	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
36	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	40	nsubj	_	_
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	breeze	breeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	parataxis	_	_
41	on	on	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **warm** | present | the sand |  |  |  | afternoon |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **rise** | present | the warm air above sand |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **rush in** | present | cooler air from the sea |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | to-infinitive | cooler air from the sea *not said here* | air's place |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | present | that | the sea breeze |  | your face |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:physics:015-wind-and-weather.lesson:1`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×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/).

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