--- title: On some flat beaches the sea comes back in faster than you can walk;… — Seasons and tides · tree and pragmatics description: On some flat beaches the sea comes back in faster than you can walk; if cut off, call the coastguard rather than try to wade. Who acts: sea, you. A sentence of the lesson «Seasons and tides» of the physics 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/physics/40-seasons-and-tides/14/) [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/) / [Physics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/) / [Seasons and tides](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/40-seasons-and-tides/) / 14 # Seasons and tides, sentence 14 On some flat beaches the sea comes back in faster than you can walk; if cut off, call the coastguard rather than try to wade. **Who acts:** sea, you · **What happens:** come back, walk, cut off, call, try, wade · **To what, where:** flat beaches, faster, coastguard · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Seasons and tides» 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 (sea, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:040-seasons-and-tides.lesson:14 # text = On some flat beaches the sea comes back in faster than you can walk; if cut off, call the coastguard rather than try to wade. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 040-seasons-and-tides.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 ×1 1 On on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 4 det _ _ 3 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 beaches beach NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 8 back back ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 faster fast ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 obl _ _ 11 than than SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 16 if if SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 17 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 advcl _ _ 18 off off ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 call call VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 coastguard coastguard NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 rather rather ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 25 cc _ _ 24 than than ADP IN _ 23 fixed _ _ 25 try try VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:conj 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 wade wade VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come back** | present | the sea | some flat beaches *not said here* | | faster | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location beach=Theme | | 2 | **walk** | can | you | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **cut off** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **call** | imperative | you *not said here* | the coastguard | | some flat beaches | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent coastguard=Recipient | | 5 | **try** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **wade** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:physics:040-seasons-and-tides.lesson:14`. **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 ×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: [Seasons and tides, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/40-seasons-and-tides/13/) - next →: [Seasons and tides, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/40-seasons-and-tides/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/40-seasons-and-tides/)