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title: Most beaches have two high tides a day, about 12 and a half hours ap… — Olympiad: speed, space and seasons ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Most beaches have two high tides a day, about 12 and a half hours apart, and each day's tides come about 50 minutes later than the day before. Who acts: Most beaches, tides, day. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: speed, space and seasons ★★★» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its
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# Olympiad: speed, space and seasons ★★★, sentence 9

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Most beaches have two high tides a day, about 12 and a half hours apart, and each day's tides come about 50 minutes later than the day before.

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**Who acts:** Most beaches, tides, day · **What happens:** have, come about, tide · **To what, where:** two high tides

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: speed, space and seasons ★★★» 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 (Most beaches, tides, day), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:044-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons.lesson:9
# text = Most beaches have two high tides a day, about 12 and a half hours apart, and each day's tides come about 50 minutes later than the day before.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 044-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons.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	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	beaches	beach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	tides	tide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:unmarked	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	about	about	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:det
14	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	15	compound	_	_
15	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
16	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	tides	tide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	about	about	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
28	than	than	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	before	before	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Most beaches | two high tides  a day and 12 half hours |  |  |  | apart *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tide=Patient |
| 2 | **come about** | present | each day's tides |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **tide** |  | each day |  |  |  |  |  | nom tide «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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.

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