Younger children, losing and practising, sentence 16
A girl in Florida was minding her little brother by the pool and looked at her phone; he slipped under the water and only a neighbour's shout saved him.
Who acts: girl, coach, shout, neighbour · What happens: mind, look, slip, save, shout · To what, where: little brother, water, coach
This is a sentence of the lesson «Younger children, losing and practising» 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 (girl, coach, shout, neighbour), 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 | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 minding | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Florida | case |
| 4 | Florida | Florida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 minding | aux |
| 6 | minding | mind | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 slipped | advcl |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 brother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 brother | amod |
| 9 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 minding | obj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 pool | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 pool | det |
| 12 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 minding | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 looked | cc |
| 14 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 minding | conj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 phone | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 phone | nmod:poss |
| 17 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 looked | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 minding | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 slipped | nsubj |
| 20 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | under | under | ADP | _ | 23 water | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 water | det |
| 23 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 slipped | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 saved | cc |
| 25 | only | only | ADV | _ | 27 neighbour | advmod |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 neighbour | det |
| 27 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 shout | nmod:poss |
| 28 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 27 neighbour | case |
| 29 | shout | shout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 saved | nsubj |
| 30 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 slipped | conj |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 saved | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 minding | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mind | past · progressive | a girl in Florida | girl's little brother | by the pool | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme | |||
| 2 | look | past | a girl in Florida not said here | at girl's phone | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at phone=Theme | ||||
| 3 | slip | past | coach | the water | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | save | past | a neighbour's shout | coach | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | shout | a neighbour | nom shout «communication transitive»: poss=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:251-younger-children-losing-and-practising.lesson:16.
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): R6-punct-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.
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