Safe at lakes and beaches, sentence 24
Drowning is quick and silent: a drowning child often cannot shout or wave.
Who acts: Drowning, drowning child · What happens: be, drown, not shout, wave
This is a sentence of the lesson «Safe at lakes and beaches» 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 (Drowning, drowning child), 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 | Drowning | drown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 quick | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 quick | cop |
| 3 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 silent | cc |
| 5 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 quick | conj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 quick | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 child | det |
| 8 | drowning | drown | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 child | amod |
| 9 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shout | nsubj |
| 10 | often | often | ADV | _ | 13 shout | advmod |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 shout | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 shout | advmod |
| 13 | shout | shout | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 quick | parataxis |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 wave | cc |
| 15 | wave | wave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 shout | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 quick | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Drowning | quick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Drowning not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | drown | gerund | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | not shout speech: express | can | a drowning child | often property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | wave | infinitive | a drowning child not said here | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:232-lakes-and-beaches.lesson:24.
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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