Teeth, nails, baths and toilets, sentence 2

A small child can drown in a few centimetres of water in seconds, so a little brother or sister is never left alone in the bath: you call an adult.

Who acts: small child, you · What happens: drown, not leave, call · To what, where: few centimetres, little brother, adult · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Teeth, nails, baths and toilets» of the everyday 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 (small child, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 child	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 child	amod
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drown	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 drown	aux
5	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 centimetres	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 centimetres	det
8	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 centimetres	amod
9	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 drown	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 water	case
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 centimetres	nmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 seconds	case
13	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 drown	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 left	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	23 left	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 brother	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 brother	amod
18	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 left	nsubj:pass
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 sister	cc
20	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 brother	conj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 left	aux:pass
22	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	23 left	advmod
23	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 drown	advcl
24	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 left	xcomp
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 bath	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bath	det
27	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 alone	obl
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 call	punct
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 call	nsubj
30	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 drown	parataxis
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 adult	det
32	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 call	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 drown	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: warn
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=warn

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	can	a small child			a few centimetres of water	second		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not leave	present · passive		a little brother or sister				alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	call	present	you		a adult				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient

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, 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:everyday:208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets.lesson:2.

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): no change. 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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