--- title: The sea is never still: waves are made by the wind, and tides, which… — Rivers, lakes and the sea up close · tree and pragmatics description: The sea is never still: waves are made by the wind, and tides, which raise and lower the sea twice a day, are made mostly by the pull of the Moon. Who acts: sea, wind, tides, pull. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sea, wind, tides, pull), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:064-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea.lesson:5 # text = The sea is never still: waves are made by the wind, and tides, which raise and lower the sea twice a day, are made mostly by the pull of the Moon. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 064-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 still still ADV RB _ 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 6 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ _ 10 by by ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 tides tide NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 raise raise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 lower low VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 25 advmod _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 27 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 29 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 by by ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 pull pull NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | present | the sea | | | | | still *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | present · passive | the wind and tides | waves | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product | | 3 | **raise** | present | tides | | | | day | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **low** | present | tides *not said here* | the sea | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sea=Theme | | 5 | **make** | present · passive | the pull of the Moon | | | | | mostly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 6 | **pull** | | | the Moon | | | | | nom pull «act transitive»: of=patient | 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:world:064-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea.lesson:5`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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: [Rivers, lakes and the sea up close, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/64-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea/4/) - next →: [Rivers, lakes and the sea up close, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/64-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/64-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea/)