Younger children, losing and practising, sentence 18
Little children can drown in seconds in very shallow water, so watching them means eyes on them all the time.
Who acts: Little children, watching · What happens: drown, watch, mean · To what, where: shallow water, children, eyes
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 (Little children, watching), 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 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 children | amod |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 drown | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 drown | aux |
| 4 | drown | drown | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 seconds | case |
| 6 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 drown | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 shallow | advmod |
| 9 | shallow | shallow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 water | amod |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drown | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 means | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 watching | advmod |
| 13 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 means | csubj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 watching | obj |
| 15 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 drown | parataxis |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 means | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 eyes | nmod |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 time | det:predet |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 time | det |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 means | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 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 | Little children | shallow water | second | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | watch | gerund | children = child | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||||
| 3 | mean | present | watching | eyes | time | on children = child | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Topic |
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:18.
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, R7-rel-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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