Being trusted and what to do with things you find, sentence 24
A girl in Florida was left to watch her little brother by the pool and went inside for a minute to get a drink; he slipped in, and only her mum's quick swim saved him.
Who acts: girl, fairness, quick swim, mum · What happens: leave, watch, go, get, slip in, save · To what, where: girl, little brother, drink, fairness
This is a sentence of the lesson «Being trusted and what to do with things you find» 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, fairness, quick swim, mum), 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 left | nsubj:pass |
| 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 left | aux:pass |
| 6 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 watch | mark |
| 8 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 left | xcomp |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 brother | nmod:poss |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 brother | amod |
| 11 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 watch | obj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 pool | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pool | det |
| 14 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 watch | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 left | conj |
| 17 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 16 went | advmod |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 minute | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 minute | det |
| 20 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 get | mark |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 went | advcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 drink | det |
| 24 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 get | obj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 slipped | punct |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 slipped | nsubj |
| 27 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 left | parataxis |
| 28 | in | in | ADV | _ | 27 slipped | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 saved | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 saved | cc |
| 31 | only | only | ADV | _ | 33 mum | advmod |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 mum | nmod:poss |
| 33 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 swim | nmod:poss |
| 34 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 33 mum | case |
| 35 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 swim | amod |
| 36 | swim | swim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 saved | nsubj |
| 37 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 left | conj |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 saved | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 left | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · passive | a girl in Florida | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | watch | to-infinitive | a girl in Florida not said here | girl's little brother | by the pool | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme | |||
| 3 | go | past | minute | inside property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | a drink | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer drink=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | slip in | past | fairness | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | save | past | girl's mum's quick swim | fairness | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 7 | swim | girl's mum | nom swim «act 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:286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find.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): R5-strong ×2, 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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